Name Me Bae references Kareena Kapoor’s iconic Poo from K3G. How a lot of an affect has she had on you?
Ananya: Much more than even I believe I perceive. Kareena, with the form of roles that she’s finished, has actually balanced her profession and her trajectory by doing a variety of enjoyable masala industrial movies. However then she’s additionally finished the characters, like in Omkara and Jab We Met and all the things that has a variety of depth. So she’s finished such a wide range of work to actually make ladies really feel like they’ll do something. Nobody can put you in a field as a result of she’s not let anybody put her in a field. She’ll do a Chameli after which she’ll do a Kambakt Ishq additionally. So she does all the things. That is on display after which off-screen, she’s so unabashedly herself. She makes errors, however she owns it. She’s assured. The way in which she’s owned being pregnant and simply flaunting her bump in every single place she goes. Now she’s working, despite the fact that she’s a mom of two youngsters. She’s simply been inspiring at all ages. And she or he’s simply been herself, which I like. That is given me the boldness to be myself.
Bae’s character additionally reminds you of Schitt’s Creek’s Alexis or Gossip Woman’s Blair Waldorf even. Did you have a look at these in style characters for reference?
Ananya: I believe all of them fall beneath an identical style or a theme. You can say that Name Me Bae follows an identical format or theme. However when you watch the present, there’s a lot extra to it. The characters are very distinctive. There are such a lot of comparisons already. And truthfully, after I additionally began, I used to be like she’s a bit like this and a bit like that. However once you go deeper into it you form of uncover her and all of the characters round her. They’re all too distinctive to actually evaluate them to anybody.
Bae is so Legally Blonde coded. Do you end up having to show which you can be trendy but mental?
Ananya: Whenever you’re an actor, join your life to be beneath public scrutiny. So it is part of our job to be judged on the way in which we glance and other people speaking about all the things however our appearing more often than not. However I believe it is as much as us to guard what’s necessary and maintain our private life as private as we probably can and to only let our work communicate loudly.
Bae’s love life is sophisticated. Did you draw out of your private life in any respect?
Ananya: I do not suppose I take something from my private life into that. It’s about placing characters on display or enjoying characters which can be flawed. It is extra about displaying folks on the market that not everybody is ideal. And folks do make errors. They pay for his or her errors additionally. However then that is not the tip of the world. Individuals develop they usually be taught they usually change. It is also necessary to know that each relationship is totally different. Nobody however the two folks in a relationship can determine what a relationship is. It is as much as them. And to only be rather less judgmental about dynamics that you just see in your life. That is one thing that I learnt so much about on Gehraiyaan after we had been taking pictures that movie. And that is one thing I took on to Bae as nicely.
A scene within the present references the viral “battle” remark Siddhant Chaturvedi made years in the past. How do you look again on that?
Ananya: It occurred so way back. Truthfully, I’ve grown up a lot since then, it was one thing that I stated six years in the past. It was taken out of context, and I’ve talked a lot about this. So I do not actually give it some thought. Individuals nonetheless form of speak about it. When it got here to the present, the one purpose that I felt snug to do it was as a result of it made a variety of sense in context to the character. Greater than being self-referential, as everybody is aware of, I am all the time one to chuckle at jokes and I am fairly cool about that. However the purpose it is within the present is that within the circulate of the scene, it is smart to Bae’s character.
Did you end up regarding your characters?
Ananya: It might appear at a look that Bae and I are related, however really we’re very totally different from one another. I’d say that Ahana from Kho Gaye Hum Khan and I had been extra related to one another with related life experiences. So I might draw a variety of myself for Ahana. However with regards to Bae, she’s actually out of this world. I do not even know tips on how to describe her. I do not know anybody round me who’s like Bae. She really exists outdoors of actuality. Whereas I did not take an excessive amount of of myself, there have been qualities in her that I preferred, which I hope to remove from the present – her kindness, positivity and basic upbeat nature.
Muskaan: Completely, particularly with the humour and simply the entire vibe is relatable. The minute I learn it, a variety of it resonated with me.
Niharika: The writers have additionally tried to do this. It is so attention-grabbing and so recent to have three ladies and a narrative about that. The writers wrote about the truth that my character is hustling in Mumbai and making an attempt to get someplace and making an attempt to virtually beat time to have the ability to obtain her desires. That was very relatable to me as nicely.
Do you suppose filmmakers are approaching you with the roles you’re in search of Gehraiyaan and Kho Gaye Hum Kahan?
Ananya: I actually hope that they do have a look at me in another way. And as you stated, I’m feeling that with the form of roles which can be coming my approach now. There’s much more to chew on. I’ve set the benchmark barely larger for myself as a result of I do not wish to go down from right here. I wish to get higher and higher. And that is solely potential with the form of movies that I do sooner or later.
What’s your relationship with social media?
Niharika: After all, it is unavoidable. And I really feel prefer it’s created in a approach that’s an extension of ourselves and that we have now to maintain going again to it. Kudos to the creators, I suppose, as a result of they have been very profitable. I am making an attempt to wean off of it and I am making an attempt to make use of it as a software moderately than it makes use of me. The battle continues to be on.
Muskaan: It is fairly a troublesome cookie as a result of it tends to devour a lot of your time. You have to filter the stuff you’re watching as a result of sure, it’s necessary for work. We additionally share memes, and so on. However now I’ve turn into extra selective about who I am following and what I am consuming. I’ve additionally put in a kind of timers.
Ananya: I have not even set reminders as a result of I’ll really feel worse after I put all of it off.
How necessary is it for feminine actors to observe the behen code?
Niharika: Once I was new, it was actually useful to have ladies who had been working within the movie trade, who I might name and communicate to and simply speak to about what I’m going by way of. Are you able to assist me? Are you able to give me some recommendation? So it was all the time beautiful to have such folks. My sister Avalokita Dutt is a writer-filmmaker, and a variety of her pals are virtually like sisters to me. So it was all the time beautiful to have folks to go to.
Ananya: I believe for me, on a human degree, they’re most likely the one folks on this planet who totally perceive what I am feeling or what I am going by way of. If something occurs, it is best to speak to them. So on a easy human degree, typically to only have a dialog and to have somebody really perceive and listen to you out, is absolutely necessary.
Muskaan: Sure, since you perceive the identical world and the grammar. Even your finest pals are there for you, but when they are not from the trade, they’ll solely perceive a lot. However when co-stars speak to one another, if we have now any issues, we all know the world. And simply to know that we’re not simply all the time preventing one another. We may also help one another develop and turn into higher folks and higher actors, that’s good to know. If even one lady is doing it, we are able to do it. You paved the way in which, do it.
Do you suppose ladies are nonetheless judged for his or her pursuits or are folks extra accepting of female-centric exhibits and flicks now?
Niharika: I believe chick flicks ought to all the time be taken significantly. It is a style to reckon with. It is an timeless style that may all the time be basic.
Muskaan: I do really feel like typically it has a little bit of a adverse connotation to it.
Ananya: However everybody watches it on the finish of the day. All people’s all the time watching it. Whoever says that, “Oh we do not watch chick flicks,” they’re all sitting and watching it.
Name Me Bae is at the moment streaming on OTT.
