Akansha on shoots getting stalled: My biggest fear is things will get scrapped
Akansha Ranjan Kapoor had a couple of shoots lined up when the resurgence of Covid-19 in India sent everything for a toss. At the moment, the actor says she is haunted by a fear that her projects might be shelved.
“I am being weirdly selfish, but my brain always goes to the most negative places, which is a terrible thing about me. I just feel like things will get scrapped, so that is my big fear right now,” she shares.
Last year, when the lockdown was imposed,
Kapoor made peace with it as it happened after her debut film, Guilty, released on an OTT platform and she had nothing else on the horizon.
Cut to the present, she was about to start shooting her third web film, co-starring actor Rajkummar Rao. “First, it was supposed to start on March 24, and then it got pushed to the first week of April, and then to mid-April. Now, it was going to happen on April 25, and I know that it’s definitely not happening,” she reveals.
When suggested that she can use this spare time to prepare for the project, the actor says, “Vasan Bala (director) doesn’t like too much prep. Some time back, we started prep and rehearsal, and Vasan was like, ‘Yeh bahut zyada prep ho raha hai’. So, that’s one of his instructions.” Kapoor, who will start working on the role just two days before the shoot begins, quips, “But the two-three days isn’t coming only.”
The 27-year-old feels the ongoing crisis has “made everything go haywire”. “I had a couple of more shoots in April, and now everything has been pushed. It’s a bummer,” says the actor with disappointment, adding that she understands that people are fighting bigger battles.