When Vipin Sharma obtained the script for Maharani 4, he knew immediately that the function demanded a unique degree of dedication. The brand new season of the SonyLIV sequence, additionally starring Huma Qureshi and Shweta Basu Prasad, sees Sharma step in because the calculating antagonist, Prime Minister Sudhakar Sriniwas Joshi. “After I was supplied the script, I realised this was going to be large, as a result of it’s a brilliantly written season,” he says.
Coming into a profitable present in its fourth season naturally introduced strain and he admits he was nervous. “I needed to arrange additional. I made positive I carry one thing to the desk and never simply are available in as one other actor.” To problem himself, Sharma modified his total means of preparation. He labored with a world coach and used a Hollywood methodology created by Harold Guskin, specializing in “taking the textual content off the pages”. “It was not simply remembering strains. It was making your strains a part of your physique. It gave me a chance to relook at my course of,” he explains.
Regardless of years of expertise, Sharma believes the educational by no means stops. “We change into our personal clichés. That’s the scariest half,” he says. Each challenge pushes him to evolve. “I didn’t need to let anybody down.” The function additionally taught him an surprising lesson — grace. Enjoying the Prime Minister shifted his power on set. “I learnt
one thing about dignity and beauty. For instance, I’m the Prime Minister. Anyone has to return and provides me a file. Puneet [Prakash] sir would say, ‘Sir, you keep there, they are going to come to you.’ That allowed me to respect that house. I attempted to carry my honesty and my dedication. I hope I discover extra new methods of taking a look at issues,” he says.
Carrying the director’s hat
In addition to appearing, Vipin Sharma has been exploring writing and route. He’s at present engaged on a script based mostly on ‘Advaita Vedanta’. “The entire universe has one supply of power. We’re not what the world makes us,” he says.