Being within the limelight is just not a brand new expertise for Anshula Kapoor, having lived with movie star siblings — Arjun, Janhvi, and Khushi, and father Boney — who’ve been underneath the digicam gaze for lengthy. Nevertheless, Amazon Prime Video’s The Traitors, hosted by Karan Johar, marked her first brush with the display. Whereas she had determined to enter showbiz, actuality exhibits weren’t the intention. “Final yr, [I had decided to do] something that scared me. I used to be saying sure to issues simply to not let worry win,” shares Anshula, who, without having seen the worldwide model of the present, was conscious of the sport Mafia, typically performed by kids. “BBC defined the format to me. It felt like one thing strategic and out of my consolation zone.”
Having now skilled the psychological pressures of being on a actuality present, she agrees that “figuring out it and dwelling it are two various things”. “It felt like we have been all inside a stress cooker. You’re making an attempt to identify flaws and cracks in individuals’s façades. It’s intense and exhausting. After which, each couple of hours, somebody involves you saying, ‘Belief is uncommon, betrayal is in all places.’ You actually start to query your self and others,” she explains.
Anshula Kapoor (in pink) in The Traitors
Taking pictures for nearly 17 hours a day in an atmosphere constructed on suspicion took a toll on her psychological well being. With out entry to buddies, household, and even simply house to decompress, she says the atmosphere turned emotionally stifling. “I had to return into remedy very intensively after the present. My nervousness was peaking. I wasn’t capable of normalise once more alone,” she says. “It stays with you. You start to triple-guess your instincts, and that’s not straightforward to come back again from. By day six, I already knew I wanted remedy.”
Whereas she doesn’t remorse doing The Traitors, Anshula is now clear that actuality TV is just not her cup of tea. “I’m introverted, and my persona doesn’t cater to the type of actuality TV India does. It gave me a number of perception into myself. It additionally confirmed me the significance of psychological well being. I’m not chasing visibility. I’m chasing peace,” she indicators off.
Do you know?
The Traitors is just like the youngsters’s sport, Mafia, often known as Chor Police, Killer, and When the Metropolis Sleeps