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Actress Rasika Dugal is tired of crying, with or without glycerine, always in front of the camera. The actor says she is breathing a sigh of relief now that the writers are finally writing diverse scripts for her and not only ones where she is supposed to shed tears on screen. She says there was a time when she could read a script backward and would invariably have at least two crying scenes in the last 10 minutes. She is grateful for the shift in characters written for her since Mirzapur that portrayed her as a femme fatale.
In an interview with indianexpress.com, Rasika accepts that the actors get typecast which doesn’t allow them to showcase their acting mettle. “There was a time I could read the script backward and know that in the last ten pages, there will be at least two crying scenes definitely for me.” When asked if that has now changed? She said, “It has, a little of that femme fatale has happened and I am happy about it.”
Rasika credits OTT boom for an upsurge in her career. She shared that it was because of the streaming services that she started getting a lot of work, and a lot of her work reached the audience. She said, “Clearly the streaming services for a lease of life for me because there were many films that I had done which hadn’t seen the kind of release they deserved. There were many small films. Besides the fact that I got a lot of work, and through shows like Mirzapur I got to access a wide audience. This is when I felt that streaming services are a space for smaller films to find an audience.”
However, she says smaller, independent cinema is again struggling, this time on OTT. “Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be true anymore because that has changed again and smaller films are struggling to find an audience. So, that absolute golden period, I’d say, is not there anymore. Yes, the shows are good, there is a quantity of work. There is good and bad here also, it is not true that all the shows being made for OTT are of a good quality,” she said. “But there is enough work and enough room for newness, new talent, new directors, new script ideas, all of that, so that’s good,” Rasika concluded.
Rasika received a lot of love from the audience and critics for her role in Mirzapur, she is now seen in Shekhar Home along with Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey and Kirti Kulhari. The show is streaming on Jio Cinemas. Her film Little Thomas is premiering at the Indian Film Festival Melbourne on August 19.
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