Shriya Pilgaonkar: I wish to take up tales the place I can current myself otherwise

Actress Shriya Pilgaonkar considers herself fortunate to be a part of authorized drama ‘Responsible Minds’. Being an actor she feels her function was very difficult and multilayered that makes it extra intriguing.

It’s a 10-episode collection which depicts Shriya as lawyer Kashaf Quaze and Varun Mitra as Deepak Rana who portrays a company lawyer.

Throughout a dialog with a information company, she shares: “Our casting director Gautam Kishanchandani’s staff approached me and the primary time in truth, after they had requested me to audition for it, the date bracket they gave me did not work out. So I mentioned, it is not potential for me. However future has determined one thing else. They got here again to me and the dates modified. And I mentioned, ‘Sure, after all’, I might prefer to audition for it.”

“I assumed that the vary of feelings that I might carry out within the audition was actually numerous. And I used to be very drawn to the identify of my character Kashaf Qazi. And I used to be positive that I might wish to do that even earlier than studying the script as a result of I actually loved the audition scene,” she provides.

The actress shares that the majority necessary for her was that she was attending to play a lawyer and it was like a dream function for her.

“I beloved all of the completely different authorized circumstances. I beloved that I used to be attending to play a lawyer. I beloved how advanced my half was. This was maybe one of many first instances I used to be getting to hold one thing on my shoulders. And I actually favored that I used to be being trusted with it.”

Each character comes with sure challenges and Shreya agrees that Kashaf is a really advanced and difficult character to depict onscreen.

“It’s a utterly completely different character for me. In fact the truth that she’s a lawyer is only one facet of it. However Kashaf is a fancy individual. She’s a non-public individual and by no means trusts anybody simply. However she’s very loyal. She’s very loving. She’s very protecting of her household.

However her character in courtroom is completely different. She’s feisty, she’s bold. So, to kind of strike that steadiness to go to point out these completely different sides, I believe that was enjoyable for me to discover. And the lawyer facet of it, after all, there have been a whole lot of strains to study. However the problem, I might say, is to make it look lifelike.”

The actress continues: “Although I might say I relate to my character as like her I’m very protecting in the direction of the folks I like.”

Shriya additional shares some behind the digital camera moments and in addition talks about her chemistry with co-actor Varun.

“I had an excellent time taking pictures our courtroom scenes. Actors actually should work to construct chemistry with us, there was simply a whole lot of ease and I felt like we instantly felt one another as these characters with out a lot effort or making an attempt to think about we had been simply Kashaf and Deepak for one another.”

Whereas coming from a household the place each of her dad and mom, Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar had been established names, how she appears to be like at her journey to this point within the leisure trade.

Shriya solutions: “With each challenge I really feel like I am beginning off. I’m extra bold now and I take pleasure in that studying course of. After each challenge I begin wanting ahead to it. I’ve a few releases which can be all very completely different by way of genres, there’s comedy, then there’s something extra like gentle hearted and one thing on the earth of stories reporting. So, I believe I simply wish to take up distinct paths and completely different tales the place I can current myself otherwise. And I am additionally looking for to do extra movie work. I really feel like that is one thing I have not bought a possibility to do in a very long time.”

The ten-episode collection has been created and directed by Shefali Bhushan and co-directed by Jayant Digambar Samalkar. It’s produced by Karan Grover and co-produced by Antara Banerjee and Naved Farooqui.

‘Responsible Minds’ streams on an OTT platform.