Dipika Kakar: For a TV show, we fight on a weekly basis to churn episodes

Actor Dipika Kakar, who is making her Bollywood debut with JP Dutta’s film, Paltan, says that the popularity quotient of a TV actor does help them bag a role in movies.

After being one of the most loved and favourite bahus on Indian television, Dipika Kakar is excited to be making her Bollywood debut. The actor, who will be seen in JP Dutta’s war film, Paltan, has already shot for a schedule for the film. As Dipika joins the list of many other TV actors who have successfully made a transition to films, she agrees that popularity helps an actor bag a role in films.

Actor Dipika Kakar is best known for her character Simar Bhardwaj in the TV show Sasural Simar Ka.

“That’s because when somebody is considering or thinking about casting people for a particular role, and if they have already seen the actor, they can understand if he or she fits the bill. On the actors part, I feel, every person wants to explore and do work that is suitable for them,” says the actor, who is best remembered for her titular role in the show Sasural Simar Ka. And now that she has worked in both the mediums, asked how different it is to shoot for a film than a daily soap, Dipika says that it’s “poles apart”, when you compare the two.

“Shooting for a film and shooting for a TV show has no match. Though the unit, lighting, camera and acting are the same, the way films are shot are different. In TV, we constantly have this pressure on our head that telecast has to happen, so we fight on a weekly basis to churn episodes. In films, it works quite the other way round.”

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