17 November,2025 05:50 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Bhagyashrii and Dulquer
Actress Baghyashrii Borse has made an impactful debut with the recently released Tamil film Kaantha that also stars Dulquer Salmaan and Rana Daggubati among others. She essayed the role of Kumari, a first-time actress who falls in love with her co-star against the wishes of the film's director who is also her mentor. The film has been directed by Selvamani Selvaraj. In one of the scenes in the film, Bhagyashrii had to repeatedly slap Dulquer's character. The actress revealed that it was a tough scene and she was hesitant to do it.
The film, the plot of which revolves around the ego tussle between a prominent director and a film superstar in the 1950s, has Bhagyashrii and Dulquer's characters making a film in the film. Bhagyashrii Borse had to strike Dulquer not once but several times hard in the sequence.
When IANS asked Bhagyashrii Borse about the difficulty of enacting such a scene, the actress said,"It took me a lot of time, I was not ready to do it because I was like 'Can I please fake it?' because I have never had to hit anybody. But I think DQ (Dulquer Salmaan) really wanted that. He wanted that real expression to come out of him. So I had to do what my co-actor wanted me to do."
For the unaware, the film, which features Dulquer Salmaan, Bhagyashrii Borse and Rana Daggubatti, released on November 14 this year to rave reviews from the critics. The gripping period dramatic thriller set in 1950s Madras was hailed for looking to transport the viewers to an era gone by. The film, which was jointly produced by Spirit Media and Dulquer Salmaan's Wayfarer Films, has cinematography by ace cameraman Dani Sanchez Lopaz and music by Jhanu Chanthar. Art direction for the film is by Tha. Ramalingam and editing is by Llewellyn Anthony Gonsalves.
It may be recalled that Bhagyashrii Borse had penned a note of gratitude to her entire unit in which she had called her co-star in the film Dulquer Salmaan, "a nadippu chakravarthy (emperor of acting)".
Taking to her Instagram page to pen a post of gratitude to her entire team, the actress, while talking about Dulquer Salmaan, wrote, "To my dearest co-actor dqsalmaan, you're a true Nadippu Chakravarthy, it was a great pleasure acting beside you and you've shined in every single frame. You're an inspiration as an actor for us all!"
