Richa finds it tough to get aggressive

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It’s rare when you get more than what you had dreamt of. Something similar happened to actor Richa Chadda, who after portraying the character of a girl-next-door in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! progressed to the fiery Nagma in Gangs Of Wasseypur, and before it could all sink in, her hands are full with some plum projects. Four of Richa’s movies — Fukrey, Tamanchey, Ishqeria and Ram Leela — are set to release this year, and each character she portrays is distinct and different from the others.
Surprisingly, the actor never took acting too seriously. She got Oye Lucky Lucky Oye! by accident and then she sat quiet, doing just theatre, for some time. “I didn’t want to be a part of the limelight. I was a kid and thought I could not handle it,” she says. However, it didn’t take her very long to get back to work as she was really inclined towards acting.
The actor says that she has been trying hard not to be typecast. “It’s a conscious effort to take up roles that are different from each other. I feel sometimes the industry typecasts an actor but sometimes even actors typecast themselves by taking up roles which they are comfortable doing. And I have been trying to take up films that are different,” says Richa, who thinks she is blessed to have worked with the finest directors of the industry because of which she got a chance to choose her roles. “This is a time to experiment. I can’t restrict myself to doing certain characters,” she says.
So, in her next release Fukrey, she is portraying the character of a woman that is inspired by the life of sex racketeer Sonu Punjaban. And while it is turning out to be really interesting for her, the actor says she finds getting into an aggressive mode very difficult. “I find being aggressive very difficult as I am not so in real life,” she says.
To understand a character well, Richa discusses it at length with the director. “The directors have a fair idea about the characters in their movies. Nobody else can make you understand the role better. Like for Fukrey, I went to Mrighdeep Singh (the director and co-writer) to take inputs and he said that I shouldn’t sound educated or sophisticated,” says Richa, who got the Filmfare critic’s award for best actor for her performance in Gangs of Wasseypur.
She says that it was the well etched out character that got her the award. “This year there were many great performances. My character was just very different. The journey of Nagma from a young girl to an old woman was something really intriguing,” she says.