Radhikka Madan spoke about choosing challenging roles like Subedaar, revealing she trained in kabaddi and learned a UP dialect for authenticity. She also shared her admiration for Anil Kapoor’s dedication and said she seeks truth in every character she plays
Radhika Madan
Radhikka Madan has left spellbound with her performance in Subedaar. The actress is known for her realistic roles on big screen which often leaves the audience admiring her craft. In an exclusive conversation with mid-day, Radhikka got candid about her role in Subedaar, experience while working with Anil Kapoor and more.
Radhikka Madan on picking rustic characters
Radhikka often goes for scripts that have raw and rustic characters, again with Subedaar we seen an interesting arc to her role. She said, "I think my choice is always led by the character that I am seeing, the script that there is. If it scares me, I make sure that I do it and Subedaar was one such film. I had to learn Kabaddi for it, had to train it for 4 months. It's not there in the film but at least, it didn't make it to the final cut but it translates in the body language that Sharma has and it was a new dialect, a challenging dialect, UP ka dialect tha which I haven't done in the past. So, I just go for those things and if it's challenging me and scaring me, in a way, I make sure I do those projects and try to add as much truth and soul in it as I can."
Sharing an anecdote from the shoot, Radhikka opened up about how was it playing Anil Kapoor's daughter, "I feel really privileged to have played the daughters of such legends, be it Dimple Ma’am, Irrfan sir, or Anil sir. They all have one thing in common that they haven’t let the child inside them die. It’s still alive. It’s still thriving. And that is really inspiring for me. They still have that hunger. They still bring their all every single day on set. And the grace that they have makes the other person also bring in their 200 percent or give their 200 percent. It lifts the people around them as well. I feel really grateful to have experienced that with all of them. And it was such a joy playing Anil sir’s daughter in this one. The father-daughter story is the core of the film. The rest of the things are amazing, but the soul lies in the relationship they share and the relationship that they have to mend by the end of the film."
On doing roles which are realistic
When asked about picking roles that evoke realism, Radhikka shared what goes behind choosing a project or character, "I think more than the realistic approach, it is the truth that an artist tries to find in every scene or every project that they do, and I strive to do the same. My whole purpose of going on set is to find some element of truth in whatever scene I am doing and give my all to it. That is the high that I get. When you become that person, when their world becomes your world, their inner world becomes your world, that is what I strive to do. I don’t think of it as an approach. I think of it as becoming the person, and I think that is the most basic thing that we can do as actors, or aim to do as actors."
Radhikka surely knows that kind of roles she wishes to play, when asked to choose between glam and rustic, the diva replied, "I do have Govinda in my blood and I’ve grown up watching all the commercial films, so I would like to do both action-led roles and other genres. I feel like I can do anything and everything. I don’t want to be put in a box."
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