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My favourite characters so far are Malavika Chauhan in Samay and Sia in Filhaal.
Malavika had a lot of internal strength. And she probably had the highest form of personal conflict -- the death of her child. That is very hard to deal with, even in reality.
To play her was a big challenge. I played a woman cop, who is perceived in a certain way in India. The minute you go overboard, people will start saying, 'arrey, yeh kya kar rahi hai?'
She had to walk a thin line: be a cop as well as a woman. I got to play two shades. At work, I was a stiff-necked cop. At home, I was a gullible mother. And I had to do both convincingly without it looking like a double role. That was tough. Besides, when do you get an opportunity in your career to play Brad Pitt!
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I loved Filhaal because of the relationships in the film. I have a lot of Sia in me. When Meghna [Gulzar] offered the role to me, I was like thank god, someone recognised the Sia in me! Till then, people couldn't look beyond Dilbar and Mast Mahul. From Filhaal, that perception changed.
It doesn't bother me that my favourite films didn't work. We, as actors, work hard to cater to audiences' expectations. But sometimes, for our own sanity, we must do films that we are proud of.
I went to Karachi recently. Yes, people congratulated me on Main Hoon Na. But that was after they congratulated me for Samay. They loved the film. That makes me wonder why Samay didn't work. I don't know whether the marketing failed, or the way it was presented. Whatever it was, people saw the film on television and they loved it. That means we were right about the fact that it was a good film.
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