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Mitakshara Kumar: Don’t want to be a one-trick pony
Updated On: 15 May, 2024 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma
After directing period dramas in The Empire and Heeramandi, Mitakshara discusses moving away from the genre and helming a relationship comedy next
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Mitakshara Kumar; Sonakshi Sinha and Manisha Koirala in Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar; The Empire focused on the rise of the Mughals
Only two directorial ventures old, Mitakshara Kumar has displayed a knack for bringing to screen the worlds lost in time. She took us back to the Mughal era with The Empire (2021), and now, to the dazzling world of courtesans in pre-independence India with Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. The episodic director says that her phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s creation—starring Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Shaikh and Sharmin Segal—dropped online on May 1. “We all work for this validation and love,” she begins. As much as she is relishing the adulation, Kumar is itching to go back on set. “I get bored when I am not on the set. Right now, the pre-production for my next is going on, and I keep telling my team, ‘Please do it fast so that the project can roll,’” she laughs.
So, is a third period drama in the offering? Far from it. The director is well-aware that she has become a dependable name in the genre, but she is equally aware that it could pigeon-hole her. “I am getting a lot of offers in the genre, and I am consciously not taking them up. I want to do something different because I don’t want to be a one-trick pony and get typecast in period dramas.”
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