Mithila Palkar is done being the girl-next-door on screen. For her next, she has gone to the other end of the spectrum and is playing a superhero. In the Hindi adaptation of Marvel’s audio series Wastelanders, Palkar will lend her voice to Sofia, a mutant in hiding. What makes the character all the more exciting is that she has yet to break out on screen. “I have never played a superhero before. What works in my favour is that the audiences haven’t seen Sofia. There is only a glimpse of her in the movie, Logan [2017], but you see more of her in the comic books. There is no visual representation of her. So, I have a new canvas to draw on,” she says.

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