‘Actors today are willing to take risks’
Actor Aditi Rao Hydari has worked in films which feature her in the lead, but there have been films — such as Fitoor (2016) — wherein she has had comparatively less screen time. The actor says she isn’t apprehensive about taking up short roles. “It shouldn’t matter. I believe that it’s the opposite today — actors are not insecure or scared. They are more willing to take risks in terms of the roles that they are doing and are open to sharing screen space with other people as well. It’s
It’s great to do a lead role, but it’s more important to do a good movie. ADITI RAO HYDARI, ACTOR
great to do a lead role, but it’s more important to be part of a good movie,” she says. Aditi was recently seen in Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film, Bhoomi, in which she played the role of his daughter. The actor says she is happy with the praise her performance in the film has garnered. “I’m overwhelmed with the response our performances have gotten so far. It was a lot of hard work, but it was a new space for me; it was something I had never done before. I even got to work with people I hadn’t worked with before, and the setting was also unfamiliar in the sense that it was a film set in a small town.” She adds, “I have done different kinds of movies. More than being happy, I am relieved that they worked. Many people from the South have been texting me — from journalists to people who I least expected to.”