Words matter. These are the best Rasika Dugal Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No matter what situation you are in, if you need help, you should be able to ask for it.
I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!
I have also done a web show called ‘Delhi Police’. It is about the investigation around the Nirbhaya case. It is also very path-breaking and interesting.
If you are true at telling the story, it will get a good audience, and the required numbers.
I am enjoying the abundance and variety of work on the web.
Our family get-togethers are about the stories such as my uncle who walked across the Indo-Burma border, or a woman who gave birth in a ship carrying refugees etc.
There’s a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.
I don’t have much foresight, and I think that’s an asset for an actor.
I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.
Sometimes you read the script and you feel that this is a challenging role but at times you feel that this one was written for me.
I think we’re still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn’t objectify them.
But honestly, much of the work that I have done has had some impact on me. It’s something that I have realised only later. I also find it amusing that the memories of actors are so consciously constructed around what happened to that piece of work, in terms of audience reception or box-office results.
Salaam Bombay’ and ‘Monsoon Wedding’ are the two Mira Nair films I go back to.
The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.
A well-written character is one where you don’t know in which direction it’s going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.
So, I do not work towards fame but if it happens to me, I won’t say no.
Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back… My focus is also on the performance.
A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking is a long process so it is important to connect with people you work with.
The way you get to explore a city when you are on shoot is so different from when you are there as a tourist.
In acting, I’ve found my soulmate.
Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.
Because I feel as actors we are required to be vulnerable, it is a part of our job. So the space that you are being vulnerable in should respect that, otherwise it is not worth it.
It is very difficult to make something like slice-of-life interesting. I don’t think many people have done the slice-of-life dramas as good as TVF has done it.
It is nice to have a lot of people watch your work but I really have thought of it as not the goal of my career but a bonus in my career.
In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you’ve played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it’s ‘safer’ to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.
In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.
There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.
If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that’s a story I don’t want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don’t want to play.
My general idea about my work is that it’s more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there’s so much to do that there’s no room for doubt there.
Women often get ignored from main narrative, especially in films.
As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.
I just got an opportunity to do that with a film called ‘Lootcase’, and it’s an opportunity that I am really grateful for.
Filmmaking, it has been my first love.
