The Media Times , Dr Priyaankaa Mathur
The Kerela story fame actor Adah Sharma is all set to bedazzle her audiences in Reeta Sanyal, playing a multi-layered sharp-witted lawyer who’s a detective at heart.Her upcoming quirky courtroom drama is soon to be released on October 14th on Disney+Hotstar during Navratri.The star-studded cast includes Ankur Rathee, Rahul Dev, and Manik Papneja, each bringing a unique flavour and depth to their characters.Adha throws light on her interesting chameleon avatar, and her inspirations, in an interesting conversation.
Adha shares her excitement about playing the character of Reeta Sanyal as seen in the trailers said, “The trailer has only glimpses, picture abhi baki hai.It’s a pulp fiction genre, what we call the masala film,which has everything with loads of madness and laughter. I’m excited about the audience response how they will react to different characters and shades that I’m playing as Reeta Sanyal who’s a lawyer cum detective and gets into different characters.If you are a fun lover then join us to have loads of masti and watch this series for sure.”
How was her chemistry with her co-stars pat comes her reply,” It was fantastic, I feel when I am good, everyone is good with me.It was pleasure working with Manik and Ankur and we as a trio have a great on screen chemistry.With Rahul Dev, I had serious courtroom scenes as he plays my opponent, which will also be interesting to watch.”
With so many OTT series releasing, what makes Reeta Sanyal different that will connect it with the audience, she replies, “Well it’s rare to find a crime thriller which has comedy, action, romance and drama at the same time, which makes Reeta Sanyal different.Moreover my character has many shades, which each women can relate.Since in every women there is a Durga and when she’s pushed to her limits, she can do what all to safeguard humanity.”
How difficult it was to transition into different roles and how did she prepare for each character, she says, ” I loved it and every actor lives for such a role with so many characters and shades, I must say I’m lucky to have this role. For each character I have modelled it around somebody.I am very observant and watch real life characters and take inspirations from everyone around me, like I’m even watching you and listening to your voice, body language and smile which is recording in my mind. I’ll try to use these as references to build the characters I play. I’m in my characters 24×7, Infact I used to rehearse my Haryanvi lines loud at night and many times my mom would tell me to stop being in the character while I’m eating!”
Adah displays her proficiency on different languages and accents while she mimicked each character with different tones which she plays in Reeta Sanyal.She plays a Lawyer, a security Guard, a waitresses, a fisher women who speaks in typical coastal Maharashtrian accent.While, Priti Sabraval from Haryana who has the typical Haryanvi accent,A blonde girl who’s a prostitute speaks in sultry western accent, and a food inspector who speaks in Tamil accent. She also sings the Marathi Rap catch song and delivers a dialogue spoken by the Machiwali in the series “Mahza marad macchi pakarne gaya to parat wapas ayaich nayi.”
Having played so many women protagonist roles, Adha this time even attempted doing action sequences in Reeta Sanyal.So where does she gets the strength to play them, she replies ,” I take my strength from Ma Durga and my mother.In this role I did some very difficult action sequences, which are close to comando action,which is larger than life. I used so many props like a Danda, Lakri, fighting through all odds,which actually hurted, scratched, bruised and I even bled during the shoot.”
Out of the seven characters she played in Reeta Sanyal, what is her favorite character, she tells, “This I would like to know from my audience, what will be their favourite character, will be my favourite, as i would know what connected me more to them. But, I feel people of Maharashtra would like me to speak in Marathi as the Machiwali.”
Talking about the release she says,” We will release one episode in a day from Monday to Friday, so that there develops an anticipation of what comes next. So weekends are off you can do yoga and chill, or look at episodes till then. Disney + Hotstar has decided to only give you one half an hour episode a day,so that you can watch it and then keep away from your phone for a while, while it’s free on your phone, Chuckles!”
Paying tribute to Ratan Tataji and what inspires her about him, she concludes by saying, “Ratan Tataji was a real patriot and what he has done for the nation and the people of our country we all are indebted. He did a lot of Philanthropy work from creating old age homes, to creating animal shelters, to creating a range of products that we use and are connected to him in someway, while he donated 65% of his earnings to charity.Also he refused to attend an award function organised by King Charles, as his dog was not well,and even King Charles recognised his compassion towards lives, and why he was actually most worthy for the award.This is so much inspiring for our generation of youngsters to see someone at that level, who was so humble, compassionate and would give so much to the society.His true wealth was the love and respect of the people and his beautiful legacy will always be remembered.”
Produced by Keylight Productions, Reeta Sanyal will stream for free on the Disney+ Hotstar mobile app, with episodes releasing Monday to Friday.
