It’s a case of “dil maange more” for Divya Dutta as far as risky films and characters are concerned. After an eventful 2018 in which she won a National Award as Best Supporting Actress, Divya’s slate for 2019 is diverse and impressive.
There’s the Malala Yousufzai biopic “Gul Makai”, Netflix film “Music Teacher”, children’s film “Jhalki… A Different Childhood”, a psychological thriller with Arshad Warsi and Juhi Chawla, “Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai” and “Ram Singh Charlie” — all signifying quite a mix of genres and number.
“It’s great. I think I have become slightly greedier and more selective, but I think it’s lovely,” Divya said. “There’s no strategy or plan that now I will only do this. But it’s just that your heart says ‘now don’t do this’ and ‘only do this’ or ‘go ahead and do just something drastically different’… I love to experiment more. When you are accepted and acknowledged and loved, I think they (the industry members) give you the freedom to choose more and take more risks. I have always done that, but I think I want to do more. It’s like ‘dil maange more’. I think I am in a position to sit and just look at the scripts and say ‘I want to do this’ or ‘I don’t want to do that’,” she added.