After Lipstick Under My Burkha and Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare , Alankrita Shrivastava once again focuses on a narrative driven by...
After Lipstick Under My Burkha and Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, Alankrita Shrivastava once again focuses on a narrative driven by women. Bombay Begums explores ambition, a working woman’s efforts to maintain a work-life balance, and her complex relationships with men, women, colleagues, bosses, children and her own body.
Shrivastava’s six-part series, which will be launched on Netflix on March 8, follows five women whose lives interlock in Mumbai. The ensemble cast includes Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur, Aadhya Anand, Rahul Bose, Vivek Gomber and Danish Husain. Pooja Bhatt, who plays the banker Rani, returns to acting after 20 years. She was last seen in the 2001 film Everybody Says I’m Fine.
In a phone interview, Bhatt and Shrivastava spoke about comebacks and the begums and their journeys.
Pooja, what made you agree to playing the boss woman Rani in ‘Bombay Begums’?
Since shooting for Zakhm [Everybody Says I’m Fine was released later], I have been making films but not acting in them. After a more than 20-year break from acting, I got an email asking if I wanted to be part of this show set in world of finance, helmed by Alankrita.
I was intrigued that they wanted me, and I thought, what is it that they are seeing in me that I am not...
