Rajshri Deshpande says she only got calls for ‘controversial films, intimate scenes’ after Sacred Games, S Durga: ‘There was no script, nothing’

Rajshri Deshpande said that she got calls for roles with intimate scenes after Sacred Games, even when they did not have a script.

Rajshri Deshpande was recently seen in Trial by Fire. (Photo: Rajshri Deshpande/Instagram)

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Rajshri Deshpande, who was last seen in the Netflix series Trial by Fire, recently opened up about how after the success of Sacred Games, she would only get calls for parts which involved intimate scenes. The actor, in a chat with Film Companion, shared that she left Mumbai for a couple of years after Sacred Games because she was building a school in her village with her NGO.

The actor shared that just when Sacred Games was taking off, her Malayalam film S Durga was also surrounded in a lot of controversy so many people in the industry assumed that she is the actor willing to take controversial roles and perform intimate scenes. During this time, the parts she was offered did not even come attached with a script. She recalled, “I was getting calls like ‘this has intimate scenes but you are comfortable with it, right?’ I was like ‘what is the script? who is doing it?'”

She added, “At that time, Sexy Durga was also everywhere. So everyone used to think that you can do a controversial film, you can do intimate scenes, so they already had a check list. They said you fit into this and you do it. There was no script, nothing.”

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Rajshri then spoke about the formulaic nature of churning out content that has become the norm recently. “It has become like Maggi noodles. You write a script in two months, shoot in two months, post production in two months, and you have a release in your seventh month, and that’s the formula a lot of people are following. And I don’t think art has any formula. It is something that you have to explore every day, every second,” she said.

Rajshri played the role of Neelam Krishnamoorthy in the Netflix series Trial by Fire. Based on the Uphaar cinema tragedy that happened in 1997, Rajshri’s character was based on the real-life person who wrote the book Trial by Fire: The Tragic Tale of the Uphaar Fire Tragedy.

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