After her scintillating performance as a seductive yesteryear heroine 'Anguri Devi' in Dibakar Banerjee's Bollywood flick 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshi', Bengali actor Swastika Mukherjee rues she is not getting to portray roles of commoners.
<img title="Swastika Mukherjee" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/mar/24-Swastika-Mukherjee.jpg" alt="Swastika Mukherjee" width="670" height="847" /> Swastika Mukherjee
This, she feels, is due to the fact that the directors here are not sure if her known image of a "sophisticated urban woman" will sync with the image of a maid or vendor in train compartment.
"In Bollywood, directors have greater faith in actors. You can see an Alia Bhat portraying a pock-marked rural woman in 'Udta Punjab' which is a departure from her micro-flaunting image. In Bengali cinema the directors are not willing to experiment me beyond my known image as a sophisticated urban woman", Swastika, who essays coquettish Bibi in Pratim D Gupta's Saheb Bibi Golaam, told PTI.
"I am ready for such roles, portraying a lower middle class woman, a poor woman, say a maid or a woman hawker I wish to do a role I will be absolutely in love with. As an actor I should not be stuck with one image. But here in Bengali film industry I am mostly not given that wide scope and drastically different from previous ones,&iquest; Swastika said.
Asked about Roopa Ganguly having done a maid&iquest;s role in Nayanchapar Dinratri by Sekhar Das at the end of her career before joining politicis, Swastika said, &iquest;yes any character which excites me. But what frustrates me is the way people in the industry here feels my urban, sophisticated look can&iquest;t be moulded enough for the role of a poor, mofussil girl in search of job".

After her scintillating performance as a seductive yesteryear heroine 'Anguri Devi' in Dibakar Banerjee's Bollywood flick 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshi', Bengali actor Swastika Mukherjee rues she is not getting to portray roles of commoners.

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