In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actress spoke about how the role came to her, preparing for the character she played, and working in Aashram
Tridha Choudhury is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi, Bengali and Telugu films and television series. She was seen in the breakout web-series Aashram by Prakash Jha, and has her new film Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 playing in cinemas currently.
In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actress spoke about how the role came to her, preparing for the character she played, and working in Aashram.
Edited excerpts from the interview
How did this role come to you?
I believe the makers, Abbas-Mustan, they always had an eye for me. And somehow, I believe when they wanted to recreate this franchise, like they wanted to do the sequel, they had certain people in mind. So it was quite interesting how through a casting director, I think the project might…have come to me. So my point is it’s the makers who had a big role in it.
How did you prepare for your role? Because it’s a great comedic space to be in.
So basically, preparation was mainly that I’ve always done a lot of subtle acting. But comedy requires punches, timing, silence. I believe a lot of times I had to make sure that I’m much more expressive with my eyes. And I just had to unlearn a lot of things, I had to kind of overplay certain lines. I had to be a little loud here and there. So as we prepare for any character, I think this is normal.
And how would you describe your chemistry with all your co-stars? I mean, not only Kapil, but the entire team, the camaraderie that you shared on and off screen?
A very interesting part was that I have shared screen space with couple of actors, because this entire cast is about a lot of people who are brilliant actors. So Akhilendra Mishra, he’s my father. I think for a lot of times there were scenes where, since he’s a very seasoned actor, we would constantly have to rehearse. So it used to almost feel like when we’re doing the scenes, as if it’s so easy and we’ve really spent time together. It felt like very real, you know, the characters. But with Kapil particularly I’m looking forward to is, we’ve actually danced together on screen. That’s something which the audience hasn’t seen Kapil do. So that was fun and challenging at the same time.
What are your memories of doing Aashram with Bobby Deol and Prakash Jha?
I’ve had plenty. The one particular one I would say is that when we all were shooting in Ayodhya particularly, I just remember that it used to happen that sir would say, “I need all the actors on mark.” He would say it like that. We would have been required. We felt like we are just ready for anything, be it cold, or different kind of auras. So with respect to memory, I think I used to really enjoy being on set. I used to wait for that moment where they’ll give us the call time so we would also reach before call time sometimes.
What can we expect from your next film Aakhri Sawaal?
… a lot of untold, unseen stories are coming to revelation. And I feel filmmaking through creative space allows us to explore that. So through Aakhri Sawaal you’ll be, you’ll see me play the character of Sara. I mean, the character’s name is Sara, and I’m a university student. I thinkthe youth and the university students always have a hunger for awareness and what’s happened in the past. So bringing history and kind of pushing it into like a very interesting, uh, genre, which Aakhri Sawaal presents, you’ll get to see me in that- and that is something I’m looking forward to.
I think it’s a great ending to 2025. We started shooting pretty much f- in February this year, and look, the film’s already done.
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