INTERVIEW
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WONDER!
SHWETA TRIPATHI SHARMA HAS INVADED
THE DIGITAL PLATFORM WITH HER SHOWS
MIRZAPUR AND LAAKHON MEIN EK SEASON 2,
WRITES ASHWINI DESHMUKH(2015), as Shalu, she dares
to fall in love outside
her caste, while Shlok
Sharma’s Haraamkhor
(2017) had her as a
schoolgirl, romancing
her much-older teacher.
Last year, she featured in
the web series Mirzapur
as Golu Gupta, someone
who’s not bashful about
her sexuality. While Made
In Heaven had her play
a bride, who chucks her
wedding over a dowry
demand. Qasim Khallow’s
drama-comedy, Gone
Kesh, featured her as a
dancer, who develops
alopecia and loses her
hair and her self-esteem.
The adventurous actor,
who doesn’t speak Tamil,
went on to do SaravanaRajendran’s Mehandi
Circus, where she played
a circus performer. What’s
more she even dubbed for
the South film.
That’s not all. Currently,
she’s winning laurels for
essaying the collected Dr.
Shreya in Laakhon Mein
Ek Season 2, a show on
the OTT platform, which
exposes the corruption in
the medical world. Talk
to her about the variety
of roles in her kitty and
she beams, “I give a bit of
myself to every character
just as I retain a bit of
each character I play. So,
every project changes
me in some way or the
other. The journey of the
characters is such.” She
chooses a project only
if it excites her. Nothing
makes her happier than
being in front of the
cameras and living a
character. “Although
I want money, fame,
followers and popularity
like everyone else, these
are not my priorities,”
she claims. “Otherwise,
the camera catches
the disinterest and the
audience can sense it too.”
She’s glad that the right
work has come her way.H
er talent is not
commonplace.
Though she
excels in
portraying the
commonplace, adding a
dash of the compelling
and the contemporary to it.
Shweta Tripathi Sharma’s
range can be gauged by
her ‘report card’ as shedescribes her textured
portfolio. The 34-year-old
actor’s inventory includes
films, shorts, television and
web series.
A decade ago, she won
notice as the tomboyish
Zenia in the television
series Kya Mast Life Hai.
In Neeraj Ghaywan’s
award-winning MasaanACTING IS AN EMOTIONAL
JOB. THERE ARE DAYS WHEN
YOU RETURN FROM A 12-
HOUR SHOOT, DRAINED BY THE
EMOTIONAL SCENES. THERE
ARE TIMES WHEN YOU DON’T
WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE;
YOU’RE IN YOUR OWN ZONE.
YOU NEED THAT SUPPORT
FROM YOUR FAMILYGone KeshWith husband and rapper Chaitanya Sharma