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Hope to work with NE filmmakers, says Geetanjali Thapa
National Award-winning actor Geetanjali Thapa, who hails from Sikkim, says that she once got an “interesting script” from a director from Northeast India. That didn’t work out, but she remains hopeful of doing any similar project.
Geetanjali won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her work in Liar’s Dice (2013), and she has also starred in Trapped (2016), Bioscopewala (2017), and Kuch Bheege Alfaaz (2018). She says, “If I get a script from the Northeast, I’d love to be a part of it. There was an interesting script for which I was approached once by a director from the Northeast. We couldn’t take it forward due to date issues. I hope to work with filmmakers from the Northeast.”
Talking about Adil Hussain, her co-star in two films — Tigers (2014) and Bioscopewala — and an actor who comes from Assam, Geetanjali is all praise. “Adil is a brilliant actor as we all know, and it’s an honour to work with him,” she says. “He’s calm, composed and helpful. One can learn so much just by watching him perform. There aren’t any projects right now [with him], but I would love to work with him again.”
Tigers, directed by Oscar winner Danis Tanovic, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, and has recently released in India on an OTT platform. “The director and the story were the main reasons I wanted to be a part of the film,” says Geetanjali, who was also in the web series Sacred Games.
Is 2019 going to be an equally busy year for her? The actor says, “I have a few interesting things lined up.”
Most of her films have been to festivals. Talking about her most memorable one, she shares, “I attended Torino Film Festival (in Turin, Italy) with our film I.D. in 2012. It’s a respected film fest that’s been around for a while. That was one of my first international film festival experiences and very special, indeed.”
Asked how she chooses her projects, Geetanjali says, “I read the script and I go for it, if I like the script and the character.”
She must have said no to some films? “The ones I couldn’t connect to as an actor. There isn’t a specific kind of role that I can’t connect to. What I mean is that sometimes, when I read a script, I simply can’t connect to a character or maybe the script,” she concludes.