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With just two-and-half films, including the bit role in Mohabbatein, Shefali Shah is one of those actors in Indian cinema who have the ability of surprising her audiences.
Her films never revolve around her but she can dominate a scene with effortless ease and lift a movie with the nuance and power of her performance.
Her debut film Satya fetched her the Filmfare supporting actor award for her portrayal of a gangster's wife.
In Monsoon Wedding, featuring a scintillating ensemble cast, Shefali stunned film pundits and viewers with her performance, especially the heart-wrenching confrontation with an aging 'uncle' who had molested her when she was a child.
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"Riya has been one of the toughest roles, which I couldn't be loud and in your face about," she says, "she had a strong past that could not dominate her present and we couldn't let the story out till the last couple of sequences."
After spending many years on the Gujarati stage and on television, Shefali knows her strengths as an actor well.
It is about being understated. It is about how a character presents herself in the background. "I feel a character comes across completely not in the scenes she does but in the scenes she doesn't."
"Riya was a person in the background. She didn't want to be the centre of attraction, she just came out in spurts, in her bits. We could have portrayed her as an angry, bitter person but that is not how I perceived her, I thought she was mature and had already dealt with it."
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