Kritika Kamra

As she charts her career ahead, Kamra wants to break the perception about her. “I am choosy. I have always been so, even with my television work. I owe the medium a lot. It gave me face value, popularity and financial freedom to say no to things that don’t gratify me. Having said that, I hit saturation. There was little diversity, and after a point, it wasn’t fulfilling me emotionally as an actor. There was a distance between what I wanted to do and what I was doing.”

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With films, too, the actor faced her fair share of struggles. After Mitron (2018), she was lying low before returning with the Amazon Prime Video series. “Big films came my way, but I wasn’t okay playing a prop in a man’s world. TV actors are spoilt because the shows are women-oriented. I signed some films that didn’t materialise,” she recounts, hoping that the political drama unfolds a new chapter for her.

Preparing for her role was not easy for Kamra, who plays a Kashmiri student politician in the series. “It makes sharp commentary on scenarios that will resonate with people because they hit too close to home. This character was not relatable to me; I had to empathise on a deeper level with her trials. It helps that the show is so well-written [by Gaurav Solanki]. My character’s conflict was well-etched. Plus, Ali has incredible clarity on his creative vision.”