Satrangi Badle ka Khel: Why Mahvash Cried On Sets Because Of Anshumaan Pushkar? EXCLUSIVE

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Ahead of the premiere of Satrangi Badle Ka Khel, the leads interacted with Filmibeat, sharing their experience working in the much-awaited series. In an exclusive conversation with Filmibeat Chief Copy Editor Abhishek Ranjit, Mahvash got candid about her emotional connection with her character, revealing the challenging aspect.

Guess what? She also revealed why she cried on the sets. It has a connection with Anshumaan Pushkar.

Here are excerpts from the interview

Q- How did you connect emotionally with your character?

So, Aarti emotionally is someone who would go to any extent for her loved ones. So, that is something very relatable to me because I can go to any extent for my people, and Aarti is also a character who can go to any extent for her people.

Rest, the right and wrong is very different for her than relations because right and wrong is one thing and relations are another thing. She has grown up in a family where she has seen a lot of wrong, but still she has made her identity, her personality and her thinking about society, about her layers and how to treat people equally and to include everyone from all cast, creed, and religion.

So, she is someone who will always stand up for the right and I think I am also very opinionated and in that way, I would go to any extent to stand up for right for anyone in that case, not for only my people, but even for strangers. I have stood up for anything and I will continue to do so.

So, that is one thing that is very relatable with Aarti for me.

Q- What was the most challenging aspect while playing Aarti?

What was challenging for me were the scenes where I had to ignore Bablu sometimes, and Bablu used to make such a cute puppy face. So, it was very difficult to ignore him in the scenes.

So, I think that those scenes were the most challenging ones. As we were so much into the script and Jai sir directed us so well and calmly, and gave us so much flexibility to improvise and to come up with ideas, it was pretty much smooth on the set otherwise. So, yeah, the manual part was difficult.

What was it performing like in a very gritty rural setting?

Honestly, I come from Aligarh. I have a very humble background. But still, I haven't seen such a rural environment. So, things used to be very new for me. Like, wow, there's a cat here. Let's go and play with it. We used to do that around the set.

And Anshuman, I just remembered that he had brought a rat on me once and I started crying. A live rat. Literally crying. With a real rat. I didn't know that they were guinea pigs. Basically, they use guinea pigs in those scenes.

So, I thought it was a real rat, and he had brought it on me. So, I started crying. So, it was a very different experience for me to shoot in a very rural place.

Literally, it was a small village of 4-7 houses where we shot. And there, people were like, I can't reveal that. But it was a great experience.

Q- Did the show help you discover any new trends as an actor?

Yes. In my first series, I was a very blunt, rude and very modern sort of a girl. And in this one, I come from a rural background. I go outside to study and everything. But I think in the first series, I thought that I might have some problem in the crying scenes. Because I didn't explore that much in the crying scenes. Intense emotion- yes, in this one, I worked a lot on that. And all the intense scenes, I hope they convince the audience.

I put a lot of effort into it. I am very satisfied with the scenes. So, I tried my best. Yes, that's one thing that I worked on.

Satrangi Badle ka Khel will be available for streaming on ZEE5 from Friday (May 22) at midnight (12am).