Shweta Tiwari appeared earlier this year in Rohit Shetty’s Indian Police Force. In her next role, she will portray an intelligence officer under Ajay Devgn’s Sangram Bhalerao in Singham Again. But that’s not it. The Kasautii Zindagii Kay actor is now also working with Karan Johar. Karan has recently collaborated with well-known television performers such as Lakshya in Kill and Kshitee Jog, Arjun Bijlani, Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Shraddha Arya, Sriti Jha, and Arjit Taneja in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.
Shweta Tiwari reveals her next project with Karan Johar; says, “I play a don-like character”
In an exclusive interview with News18 Showsha, Shweta reveals her next project with the filmmaker’s production house and said “I’m doing Dharma Productions’ upcoming web series. In that, I play a don-like character who wears a saree and smokes cigarettes (laughs). It was a very challenging role and that’s why I wanted to do it.”
Though she is tight-lipped about other details, she says she is prepared for smaller roles in this next chapter of her career. She shared, “I’ve always told myself – ‘do what you like.’ I’ve been a lead face in television but when I’m stepping out and foraying into something else, I want to explore different parts. I know that I’ve to accept smaller roles if I want to work with a certain director or an actor. I want to make my debut in different avenues every five years.”
For the uninitiated, she has dabbled in filmmaking throughout her broadcast career. However, it was not an easy ride, as she encountered discrimination’many times in multiple places’. Shweta recalls one episode and said, “There’s this very famous director who I don’t want to name. This one time he called me for a role in his film. He told me the character perfectly suited me and that he really wanted me to do it. And then he said, ‘But the problem is, you’re a TV actor. Kaise bechunga main? Kaise bolunga main producers ko ki yeh TV waali actress hai?’”
She continued, “I told him that if that’s the case, why did you call me in the first place? He only called me to narrate the story and to say it to me that I’m just a TV actor! I don’t know why he even asked me to meet him. I said to him, ‘Okay, fine.’ And left. In my mind, I kept thinking ki, abhi aap ko yaad aaya ki main TV karti hoon, phone karte waqt yaad nahi tha?”
Shweta has recently been rejecting down assignments owing to low remuneration, but she is willing to make an exception on one condition. “I’m very content in my life today. Be it personal life or work, I’m very much at peace with everything. Jo mann ko bhaata hai, woh hi karti hoon. If the project is very good, then I don’t look at money, I just do it. There’s this greed to do good work even today. Sometimes when I see that producers don’t have the budget to afford me, I even offer to work for free,” she stated.
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