It’s tough to play oneself on screen: Akshita Mudgal
The girl from the Taj city, Akshita Mudgal, who started her career with a dance reality show, feels playing a character that is very close to herself sounds easy but is a very tough thing to do. “When I play a character, which is almost like me, I don’t have to act much so I let spontaneity take over. It sounds easy but it’s very tough to play oneself on screen as you need to be true to the character but your real personality starts taking over,” says the actor.
In the ongoing show ‘Ishk Par Zor Nahi’, she plays a vivacious, modern with family values and full of life character. “In the show, the character I play is very close to real me. The only difference is that I am not impulsive like my character.” With the spurt in Covid cases and lockdown in Mumbai, they have relocated the cast and crew to Diu and are now shooting there in a bio bubble, she added. Giving a peek into her journey Akshita said, “I had this ‘keeda’ of dancing in me and then I was trained under my guru Tony (Faster) sir who introduced me to the industry. Thereafter, I entered ‘Dance India Dance’ (2012) and crossed four rounds and entered the TV round but then I was out of the show. However, it was a big thing for me to reach in top 100 amongst lakhs of people.” She came back to her home in Agra but started getting calls for auditions. “Since I wanted to explore acting, so I went to Mumbai, went for auditions and started getting good work. I started with TV commercials and did a lot of episodic. From characters roles to parallel lead and my first show as the protagonist was ‘Bhakarwadi’.”
The actor has also been featured in the Tamil-Telugu film ‘Ugramm’. “It was difficult for me to shoot in a different language but everyone was very cooperative to me. I had a great shoot experience,” she said.
Akshita has not been to her hometown for a while. “It has been a couple of years that I visited Agra as my family is living here. But, both my maternal and paternal families live in Agra. I am very much connected with my city and the state and miss it too,” she said.