You know a script is powerful when it surprises someone of Konkona Sensharma’s calibre. The actor, after all, comes with a two-decade career built on novel characters and stories. But that didn’t quite prepare her for the curveball that is Killer Soup. “I have been working for more than 20 years. So, when I get something new, it becomes so exciting. I’ve never played somebody like Swati Shetty, who is okay with a little murder here and there,” she laughs.

In director Abhishek Chaubey’s series, Sensharma plays a homemaker who is desperate to open a restaurant even as her husband, essayed by Manoj Bajpayee, doesn’t take her ambition seriously. What was the biggest draw for her? The absence of moral judgment, she says. “Swati is in her 40s, has done the child-raising and building the home for her husband. Now, she goes on this journey of wanting to open her restaurant. What happens in the middle doesn’t matter to her. Getting into morality wasn’t needed. We didn’t have to think what was right and wrong because a lot of bad was already going on between the Shetty brothers [played by Bajpayee and Sayaji Shinde]. She can roll with the punches. She is managing the narrative, which keeps the power with her.”