Enjoyable reality: Laapataa Women (2024) is about in 2001 and for Nitanshi Goel, this posed a problem. Why? As a result of she wasn’t even born in 2001. Talking of challenges within the office, think about being a meals supply individual tasked with delivering biriyani to Sparsh Shrivastava solely to seek out the younger actor desires to talk with you (and delay your subsequent supply) as a result of he’s modelling his character in Laapataa Women on you. Or googling “Some DIFFERENT married women from Bihar” as Pratibha Ranta did, to determine her character Jaya’s physique language.
For the younger solid of Kiran Rao’s charming movie a few bride swap within the fictional Nirmal Pradesh, Laapataa Women has been a dream debut. Goel, Ranta and Shrivastava shared recollections from the movie shoot throughout a chat with Movie Companion.
Listed below are edited excerpts from the interview:
FC: Inform us about moving into your position.
Pratibha Ranta (PR): I had associated to Jaya a lot that I used to be already half-way there psychologically. What I needed to work on was the physique language, the costume (and we had numerous assist in that division), and the dialect.For her dialect, we had lengthy discussions with Kiran (Rao) ma’am and we had been understanding the finer particulars of the way in which this individual will converse. This can be a assured woman who’s taking a stand, and extra importantly, she is educated — so she has interacted with different individuals who converse in Hindi and that stuff must mirror in the way in which she speaks. She’s extra educated than Phool and Deepak–
Nitanshi Goel (NG): Some phrases you say very clearly…
PR: Sure, she has a cleaner pronunciation. So after we had been on set, I needed to be cautious of how Sparsh is saying sure phrases after which be capable of differentiate between how he says it and the way I’ve to say it. … The opposite factor was the saree that I needed to be taught to handle. As a result of for ladies like Jaya, they’re very snug in that apparel, and I can’t look uncomfortable. … But in addition, Jaya wears salwar swimsuit earlier than she will get married, so it’s comparatively new for her and there’s additionally a discomfort in her physique language as a result of she is in a brand new setting. So I needed to fold all of that into the efficiency. I used to be additionally watching movies on YouTube however this sort of character we haven’t seen earlier than so it’s arduous to discover a template. I’d search “Some DIFFERENT married women from Bihar” (laughs).
Sparsh Shrivastava (SS): I’ve by no means been to an appearing faculty so my technique is a bit atrangi (totally different). For Deepak, I used to be in search of one thing particular, his innocence. He talks softly, he wears these 2001 sorts of garments, so I went out and purchased these sorts of garments. … There was a Zomato supply accomplice known as Sanjay who had come to ship my biryani and I noticed Deepak’s innocence in his eyes. He was sporting a masks, so all I might see had been his eyes and I discovered that tender innocence in his eyes. So I attempted to spend a while with him, and tried to speak to him. However he was very cautious of this entire factor — somebody who doesn’t perceive this trade would naturally be a bit fearful. However even that hesitation and that worry I picked up from him. As a dancer, the physique language is straightforward for me to choose up. I’ve absolutely experimented with this character.
NG: Prepping for Phool was a course of. The very first thing I did was that I learnt to make spherical rotis (laughs). Phool makes completely spherical rotis and I didn’t have that expertise. To be taught that, I made rotis in my home for 2 months (for lunch and dinner). Then, her physique language was crucial for me as a result of Phool doesn’t have numerous traces and I simply have to make use of my eyes and my physique language to convey all of my emotions. I created this period with Kiran ma’am as a result of I’ve not seen this period in my lifetime.
