The second season of the Disney+ Hotstar series Criminal Justice follows the trial of Anu Chandra, who is accused of stabbing her husband....
The second season of the Disney+ Hotstar series Criminal Justice follows the trial of Anu Chandra, who is accused of stabbing her husband. Kirti Kulhari plays the woman at the centre of the courtroom drama, which has been directed by Rohan Sippy and Arjun Mukherjee and written by Apurva Asrani. The returning cast includes Pankaj Tripathi, Anupriya Goenka and Mita Vashisht They will be be joined by Shilpa Shukla, Deepti Naval, Jisshu Sengupta and Ashish Vidhyarthi. An official remake of the British crime series of the same name, Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors will be streamed from December 24.
For Kulhari, the role of a weak and anguished woman is the polar opposite of the tipple-loving, fashion-forward Anjana from Four More Shots Please! and the earnest Indian Air Force pilot from Uri: The Surgical Strike. Kulhari told Scroll.in about why she initially hesitated before taking on the pivotal role – and what made her change her mind.
If there is Anjana on one hand, there is Anu on the other.
Yes. I always get a new character to play, but there is a tendency to play independent, empowered women, characters of substance with a vulnerable side. Anu is the complete opposite. She personifies being a victim – weak, broken, voiceless, just surviving. It’s very different from...
