Konkona Sensharma recalls ‘literally holding back tears’ while shooting a ‘sensational’ commercial film: ‘Was hoping that it never releases’

Actor Konkona Sensharma recalled how embarrassed she was early in her career, about doing a 'sensational' film about a teenager stalking an older man.

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Actor Konkona Sensharma recalled how embarrassed she was about doing a Bengali-language thriller early in her career, and admitted that she was secretly praying that it never sees the light of day. In a chat with her Killer Soup co-star Manoj Bajpayee for Indian Express, Konkona admitted that she was a ‘snob’, and said that to some degree, she still is. “It’s okay to have high standards,” she said, as she narrated an anecdote about bagging her first role as an adult, while she was still in college.

She said, “I got offered this film by a very lovely man, Subrata Sen. And the film went on to do very well. It was a Bengali thriller. It was about this teenager who was in love with an older man, and it was a little sensational type. Like negative character, stalking this older man. And I used to look down on all this. Here we were, doing seminars on theatre of the absurd, and the Dadaist movement, and surrealist movement and all that. And then, in Calcutta, between my second year and third year… It was a commercial film, sometimes quite silly. I literally remember standing in a studio in Calcutta and holding back tears, and hoping that this film never releases.”

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That way, she added, nobody would have to see her ‘behaving so stupidly’. The film she was talking about was Ek Je Aachhe Kanya, in which she starred alongside the veteran Bengali star Sabyasachi Chakrabarty. Konkona then appeared in Rituparno Sen’s Titli, which she did ‘for a lark’, before making her Hindi-language debut with her mother Aparna Sen’s Mr & Mrs Iyer. She said that her mother ‘tricked’ her into doing the film by sending her to do ‘research’ in Chennai. Konkona said that even after doing Mr & Mrs Iyer, she wasn’t sure about pursuing acting as a career, and would look at classified ads in the newspaper for job openings. But the film won a National Award, and she was flooded with offers.

Watch Konkona Sensharma and Manoj Bajpayee’s Creator x Creator episode here –

Manoj and Konkona will soon be seen in the Netflix dark comedy thriller series Killer Soup, due out on January 11. She was last seen in the film Kuttey, and worked again with her mother on the unreleased film The Rapist. She also directed the acclaimed short film The Mirror, which was released as a part of Netflix’s Lust Stories 2 anthology film.

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