Reimagine—that has been the important thing phrase for Shriya Pilgaonkar in 2023. The actor’s focus has been on tasks that depict her in a brand new mild. That’s the place Dry Day suits in. The Amazon Prime Video movie, starring Jitendra Kumar, presents her as a mainstream heroine after a spate of gritty exhibits, together with Responsible Minds (2022), Mirzapur and The Damaged Information (2022). “It was refreshing for me to be projected as a Hindi movie heroine in Dry Day. I bought to showcase a side that maybe had not been seen earlier than. What was most fun was the chance to do a music. I all the time dreamt of dancing on display, and Dry Day gave me that chance,” she smiles.
Dry Day is fronted by Jitendra Kumar and Shriya Pilgaonkar
The actor says that she has been related to hard-hitting exhibits for thus lengthy that filmmakers couldn’t see her every other approach. “My intention was all the time to be versatile as a result of persons are fast to stereotype you. I all the time must spoon-feed folks about what I’m able to as a result of they typically lack the creativeness to see [me] in several methods.”
Going into 2024, Pilgaonkar goals to steadiness motion pictures with sequence. She desires to interrupt freed from the label of an OTT star. “Since most of my work has been within the OTT world, I’m all the time launched as an OTT star. Individuals field you as somebody [who is only] doing work within the internet world. However I’d like to do extra theatricals. I’ve performed tales rooted in actuality, so now, I’d love to do one thing cinematic, on a bigger scale—say a musical, a interval drama, or a rom-com.”