Shruti Haasan talk about her new web series: Bestseller  

I never played a city girl role before, so it’s a new experience for me 

Recently Indian actress Shruti Haasan interviewed Hindustan Times to promote her new web show “Bestseller.” She said that I loved it when I got the script and loved my role in the front; I had never played a city girl role before, so it was a new experience for me. I think this is a unique space for me.

I was excited to enter the area, but it was evident that I was not a guest or a visitor in this story. I tried to be the gatekeeper of the story, and I think these qualities I found in this web series where I found that all the characters were so intrusting and I love to read, I love to read good stories so, I got the energy and I was don’t want to put that down. 

Where shruti also answered the most asked question: “How she gone a play a small-town girl and any different corrector.” She replied that my whole career is playing these roles like my most significant hit was ‘Gabber is back’ where I played a simple girl, in ‘Ramaiya vastavaiya.’I played the village girl role, whereas in ‘D-Day,’ I have done a part of a prostitute, but I look at this question interestingly.

I think now as days everyone is on social media are saying all lots of things every day, and I don’t believe that known of us who played a villager girl role is a villager. Still, I try to do my best to say that I never played a character that is anything like me. I have done like 30 plus movies, and two or three can count off in each language, and none of them have been city-based girls weirdly. 

I am not biased because I am in the show, but I enjoyed reading it. I found it to have the thriller’s energy, and people confused things everywhere. They think that if it is a thriller show, you should be in a rush. Still, I think it is the opposite.

The more you invest in your role, the more you connect to them, and bestseller has all their qualities. For an actor, the most challenging genre is comedy, whereas for a writer, the hardest thing is to write a thriller story, and our writers have done a fabulous job. 

Shruti also shared what she and her family do when they are together; my father instead discusses his work because there is much more for me to learn from him. We never discuss his job because he has done those characters that we can even match in our dreams.

We do not discuss our work with each other we don’t do their things. We discussed the films we saw last time together. I remember I visited Chennai, where I got to see my dad on set, and it was after so long he came on sit, which was so lovely.

We went to our home, and then we just watched some documentaries, and then we talked about them, talked about filmmaking, about some new technology and storytelling. Still, we never talk about the business, and I think it is because we all are artists and we only love art when we sit together, whereas I don’t think we are good in business, especially me. We are just an artist, and we loved it.   

Edited By : Toshi Kumar

Published By : K. Bindhiya Prarthana