Shahana Goswami plays in A decent boy (courtesy shahanagoswami)
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- “I was doing independent projects that weren’t shot in India,” she says
- “So I didn’t see the need to live in Mumbai,” she added.
- “But I started to have plans that required me to be here,” she said.
Bombay:
Five years after moving to Paris, actor Shahana Goswami is back in Mumbai and she says the decision was sparked by back-to-back interesting plans asking her to be in the city.
Goswami, who has worked in films like Rock On, Ra.One and Firaaq, moved to Paris in 2015, where she starred in a few short films.
The actor also appeared in the famous Sunday Tu Hai Mera (2016) and Manoj Bajpayee starring Gali guliyan in 2019, when she was based in Paris.
But Goswami found it more feasible to move to Mumbai this year with the offer of three web series.
In an interview with PTI, Goswami said she did not move to France specifically in search of a better job but to “travel, explore and learn different things”.
“I was doing international and independent projects that weren’t necessarily shot in India or with an Indian cast and crew. So I didn’t see the need to live in Mumbai. But I decided to go back because that I started having projects – three web-series – that required me to be here. “
“I realized that I should be here more than six months in a year, so I no longer saw Paris as my future. I’m happy for it, I’ll go wherever my work or my life takes me. My voucher work has taken me and I’m extremely excited, ”she added.
Goswami is currently seen in Mira Nair drama A decent boy. An official adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by acclaimed author Vikram Seth, the six-part drama began airing on Netflix last week.
On the show, Goswami plays Meenakshi Chatterji Mehra – an unapologetic woman living on her own terms in 1950s India.
The actor saw Meenakshi as a fascinating woman who had a quality inherent in the aspiration to be comfortable with who she was.
“What I love about her is how she is so without excuse. Often times people are without excuse in an arrogant way, but she’s like that organically. She is a woman who could live on her own terms and doesn’t care how society sees her.
“Today she would be considered a free-spirited woman, but maybe back then she made people uncomfortable. On the show, she doesn’t experience any growth because she’s already where she wants to be. It is a great place. “
The project marks her first collaboration with Nair, and Goswami said that while the series has a rich set, the filmmaker works in a way where every character, no matter how much screen time, matters.
“She loves all of her characters. It shows in the way she interacts with us on sets and even how it is projected on screen. With Meenakshi, we were going to laugh hysterically because it was such a joy to play her. “said Goswami.
The 34-year-old actor said Nair comes with an incredible amount of “energy and focus” on set, which is almost “shocking”.
Goswami observed that Namesake the director never gets bogged down and works with a constant determination to achieve her vision.
“Every time we went to sets, we marveled at his choice of actors. She selected the whole team. We were surprised at how well all of them were in sync with each other, despite being such a great cast and team. She knows what she wants and who can deliver it, ”she added.
The series stars Tanya Maniktala, Ishaan Khatter, Tabu, Rasika Dugal and Ram Kapoor among others.
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