Bollywood actress Sonkashi Sinha, who made her acting debut with Salman Khan in the 2010 blockbuster ‘Dabangg’, is poised for her career’s first web series with an eight-part crime drama ‘Daahad’, releasing on May 12.
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00:00Well, I wouldn't say it's the final thing. It's the beginning of great things and new things and
00:05hopefully it'll continue this way. But yeah, I agree with you. I'm underutilized.
00:13You should tell all the directors and producers, what are you guys doing?
00:20Is this the final thing where you know, we can see you really,
00:24you know, they extracted your full potential?
00:27Well, I wouldn't say it's the final thing. It's the beginning of great things and new things and
00:32hopefully it'll continue this way. But yeah, I agree with you. I'm underutilized.
00:40You should tell all the directors and producers, what are you guys doing?
00:45But you know, Reema and Zoya came at such a correct time and this is when I was really
00:51waiting for a role like this which I can really sink my teeth into. And you know, working with
00:56creators like them is such a pleasure for any actor. The way they've written the entire series,
01:02the way they've written all the roles, my character. It was truly such a wonderful
01:11experience being this character on screen and I'm truly grateful to them.
01:15Do you think they're a lot more sensitive as filmmakers because they're women or do you find it different?
01:20I think as directors, I've worked with Reema, not Zoya. I would love to work with her
01:25but as directors who are female bring a different sensitivity to the way they approach subjects.
01:32This is the second time I've worked with a female director. The perspective is very different from
01:38how they explain it to how they shoot it to how they bring out you know the character from an
01:45actor. It's different but again saying that I just think they're very, very they are just brilliant
01:51minds. The way they know how to fight for what they want, it all just adds, it just makes them
01:59amazing and I feel you know they're not the kind of regular producers who are doing this only for
02:04the business of minding. They are creators. They want to create something beautiful from scratch.
02:11Their first priority is that we have to create something beautiful. They are truly creative
02:17and it's a pleasure working with them.
02:18What kind of homework did you do? Like did you talk to these guys? Did you observe or did you
02:22watch a lot of procedurals and documentaries you know just to know to look that certain way and
02:28because this is not your world like this is not where you come from actually right? This is not your job.
02:33Not at all but my job is an actor's job and it's the best job in the world. I can be whoever I want to be.
02:40That is true and you're doing great.
02:43Yeah but no so my what I this is a favourite genre of mine. I love watching crime dramas
02:50even you know when I have some time off so I've seen a lot of shows, a lot of movies from this
02:58genre so it's pretty much there in my head and I pick up like by watch observing people, by
03:04watching the behaviour, by speaking to them, by looking at them from afar so and my biggest
03:10homework is speaking to my directors like I like to pick their brain and understand what
03:15their vision really is for when they want me to play a character so having done that when we
03:21landed up to shoot in Rajasthan, Harima would every day call you know maybe one or two
03:28female officers just to hang around the set to teach us how to salute right, get the salute proper
03:35and stuff like that so talking to them, seeing how they are you pick up a few things here and
03:40there you keep those in your mind and that's how you kind of you know then you use them whenever
03:45you need to as an actor when you're playing a character. Certain other things like the body
03:49language, the walk, the you know the stance, the salute all of that comes I felt it came
03:57automatically to me when I wore the uniform. That uniform just brings a sense of authority and
04:03power that doesn't come on with anything else so that was half the battle one then of course I had
04:10to learn how to ride a bike, work on my dialect and stuff like that to to really become Anjali
04:16Bhatti so it was a really enjoyable experience.
04:20It's very different for you right, it's not a Bollywood song and dance musical, it's not.
04:25Not at all, not at all and that that was the refreshing change for me as well to be able to do
04:32that right now. I'm telling you I'm feeling the same way I felt when my first film was
04:38releasing, this is my first day digital, this is my debut and I'm feeling the exact same way.
04:46Do you think you felt as if you were liberated like there's not just three hours, this can go on
04:51for hours you can really like show your heft?
04:54Yeah, it felt it felt good to be able to live with the character so much longer. I feel like the
04:59first few days we were kind of figuring out and then once you get into it, you get into it and
05:04when you enjoy this character which I loved it from the get-go like when I read the script only
05:10when I heard the narration that's when I fell in love with the character so for me to be able to
05:15live with her for that much longer where she's developed in every episode moving forward you
05:23know you get the makers get that much time to kind of sketch out each and every character in
05:27that and that's so nice you know.
05:28There's another trailblazer there it's called Vijay Verma who I'm telling you he's so good if
05:33he's in the series you know we just take off how was it he has the most deadpan expression, the
05:38most unassuming, most serial killers are like that in series, they fly under the radar as we say it
05:44but was it good to act with such a powerhouse talent like what did you observe about him?
05:50It was it's you know for an actor it's the best most satisfying thing when you share screen
05:58space or the same scene with other good actors and everyone on this show has been so phenomenal
06:07right from Vijay to Gulshan to Soham there's so many other characters in our show that that you
06:13know have really excelled in their parts. For an actor to be able to kind of just you know feed
06:19off the energy of another good actor is the best thing.
06:24There's been a lot of talk about police brutality, how it's glorified in movies etc.
06:28Were you guys very sensitive as well that that's not the case you know just to throw your
06:33weight around and glorify it?
06:36No you know we're telling a story, we're telling
06:39a story which is completely fictional. Yes, we are playing police officers but then we're
06:46showing you all kinds. There's officers like Anjali Bhatti, there's officers like Gulshan
06:51Devaiah who are so righteous and will do anything to make sure the right thing happens.
06:59Then there are certain other people in every profession you know you'll find all sorts right
07:03so that's what we're showing here as well there was no intention to kind of bring out the bad
07:08side or show only the good side. We're just playing it straight.
07:12Are you scared of the reviews my friend?
07:14I've always kind of gone by what the feedback I've gotten from from real people maybe I mean
07:21everybody's real but like I mean people I meet, people I see, whatever I read online stuff like
07:27that. I actually stopped reading reviews a while back because in my initial years only because
07:35the films were big blockbusters but the reviews were always bad so I was like confused what is
07:42happening with my life you know so I just stopped reading them but yeah the hope is that always
07:50that you know people enjoy my work no matter where they see it and yeah I'm moving forward just with that.
08:05you