Spoilers ahead about ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare’. One of the reasons Konkona Sensharma was drawn to playing Dolly in Alankrita S...
Spoilers ahead about ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare’.
One of the reasons Konkona Sensharma was drawn to playing Dolly in Alankrita Shrivastava’s Netflix Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare was that she had never played such a “morally ambiguous and transgressive character before”, the 40-year-old actor told Scroll.in.
In the September 18 release, Sensharma is Radha, nicknamed Dolly. She initially comes across as a model mother-wife-employee, until it is revealed how imperfect her facade is. She shares a warm but complex relationship with her cousin Kaajal aka Kitty (Bhumi Pednekar), who is on her own trajectory of self-awareness.
“The usual kind of roles I had always played are morally upright and strong women,” Sensharma observed. “But women are not always that sanitised in real life. They may not always act responsibly or make the right life decisions. So Dolly also lies, cheats, steals to find herself, and it was so relatable and well fleshed-out, that things just came together.”
Making her acting debut as a mentally troubled teenager obsessed with a much older man in the 2001 Bengali film Ek Je Aachhe Kanya, Sensharma has gone on to play several performance-heavy roles in Hindi, Bengali, and English movies. She won a National Film Award for Best Actress for her work in...
