Actor Sonali Bendre on venturing into the streaming area with the Indian adaptation of British tv drama ‘Press,’ which focuses on two rival newsrooms
Actor Sonali Bendre on venturing into the streaming area with the Indian adaptation of British tv drama ‘Press,’ which focuses on two rival newsrooms
All set to make her digital debut with ZEE5’s The Broken News, Sonali Bendre is trying ahead to returning to fictional tv after virtually seven years. “I am very excited about the kind of stories that are being told,” Bendre says over a Zoom name.
An adaptation of the British sequence Press, The Broken News focuses on two rival Indian newsrooms. “These are not stories that are told very often,” says Sonali, who performs Amina Qureshi, an editor-in-chief, heading the Awaaz Bharati information channel.
She confesses that she loves the truth that her character runs the newsroom. “If I am going to do fiction, if I am going to act, then the roles that I want are of characters that have a strong voice. I want to tell stories that have hope in them,” she says, of her resolution to take up this position.
Seen final in Balaji Telefilms’ Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye (2014) , Sonali could have taken a step again from fictional roles, however by no means actually left tv screens. Appearing as a choose in reveals like India’s Best Dramebaaz (2013-16), and Super Dancer (2021), she describes actuality reveals as a platform the place she will be able to voice her views freely. However, taking part in totally different characters is what she likes finest. “I want to move to new avenues. I don’t want to keep doing the same thing,” she says, including that streaming platforms give her this different alternative of characters to play from.
A nonetheless from ‘The Broken News’
With The Broken News, she was additionally testing the waters. Wanting to see how this enterprise goes, Bendre admits that she was being a bit cautious, taking it one step at a time.
Streaming platforms have undeniably widened the scope of roles being provided to feminine actors, and for Sonali, this completely aligns with how she views her future within the business. “I am done with being a 20-year-old,” she says, including that she needs her craft to be as revered as her age. “I always say that the lines on my face are the stripes which I have earned; I am proud of them and have lived a life to earn them, and I don’t want to deny the fact that I have lived that life. I evolved from it, and that’s been my learning.”
Besides being a novel character, the present’s premise itself was a catalyst in convincing Bendre to take up the position. Against the present-day backdrop, The Broken News, directed by Vinay Waikul, guarantees to be a newsroom drama that sheds gentle on the rising plague of faux information, because the characters stroll the tightrope of presenting fact versus peddling sensationalism.
Describing the present as “part of our reality today,” Sonali claims that The Broken News holds up a mirror to the society that we inhabit. “Media is part of our society. It is going exactly where the entire society is heading.”
An ‘overload of information’ is how she defines the trendy sample of stories consumption. “A lot of times we treat information like knowledge. It’s not.”
Sonali additionally cautions towards being over-informed to the purpose the place individuals would possibly ignore essential particulars. “In the 80s or 90s, you didn’t have access to so much information, so what you didn’t know was hidden. Now you know everything, so this overload might cause you miss out on what is actually relevant.”
Through The Broken News, Bendre and the solid, which incorporates Jaideep Ahlawat, Shriya Pilgaonkar, and Indraneil Sengupta, try to current a 360-degree view of the place your information is coming from. “It’s not about black-and-white and judging, but about what is happening,” says Sonali, describing the internal workings of a newsroom as “more exciting than a thriller.”
Sonali Bendre and Shriya Pilgaonkar in a nonetheless from the present
Now that Sonali has forayed into fiction once more, she is optimistic concerning the alternatives that lie forward. Having already labored within the Tamil and Telugu industries, in profitable movies like Kadhalar Dhinam (1999), Murari (2001) and Manmadhudu (2002), she hopes to discover extra avenues. “I want to work with all the new talent out there. They’re doing things differently, and I will get to learn from that.”
Over the years, a part of Sonali’s studying has additionally included acknowledging when one must take a break: “When I worked earlier, we just went on working and working. That’s not the way I want to continue. I love the fact that you prep, get ready, give it your all, and then… take a break. And then, that pattern follows.”
The Broken News will premiere on ZEE5 on June 10
Source: www.thehindu.com
