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Manasvi Mamgai: Wanted to challenge how we go on a witch-hunt
Updated On: 14 July, 2023 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Manasvi Mamgai is Returning to showbiz after Action Jackson with The Trial. Manasvi says she identified with the anguish of her character who is under suspicion after her partner’s demise
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In 2014, former Miss India Manasvi Mamgai forayed into Hindi films with Ajay Devgn’s Action Jackson. Playing the antagonist, she hoped, would pave the way for complex roles. Instead, she says that playing a villain backfired in an industry that is quick to typecast actors. Almost a decade since, the actor is returning to the screens with The Trial.
In the Kajol-led legal drama, Mamgai plays a role loosely based on a star girlfriend who is at the receiving end of suspicion and hate after the unexpected demise of her partner. The obvious reference point is Rhea Chakraborty in light of what unspooled in the Sushant Singh Rajput case after his death in 2020. “I want people to reflect on what’s happening in society. That’s why I took this role. I’ve gone through something like this, in a different intensity. In my first film, I portrayed a role that was hard to stomach. After watching Action Jackson, my friends and family said, ‘What did you do?’ That was a morally dubious character. I got identified as that, and the roles that came my way after that were all similar. So, I wanted to do this role to challenge how we go on a witch-hunt, without understanding the other person’s perspective. Here, a lot of emotions came from my own anger,” she says.
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