Richa Chadda&rsquo;s all set to take over the reins of her dead husband&rsquo;s empire in Gangs Of Wasseypur 2. The film&rsquo;s encouraging opening has encouraged the film&rsquo;s producers, Viacom 18 and Sunil Bohra, to plan the release of the sequel where the character played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui takes over his father&rsquo;s crime empire in Wasseypur. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jul/richa.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 446px; " /> But it&rsquo;s the widow of Sultan (played by Manoj Bajpai), played by Richa, who will shock audiences. A sneak peek into the sequel reveals that Bajpai&rsquo;s fiery wife from the first part plays a 45 year-old successor to the empire. Richa&rsquo;s character ages further in the film, and she will also play a feisty 80 year-old matriarch as the film progresses. Richa&rsquo;s role has distinct shades of Shakespeare&rsquo;s Lady Macbeth. For 26 year-old Richa, the challenge of playing a woman who goes from 18 to 45 to an 80 year-old character was quite daunting. Recalls the actor, &ldquo;We were shooting in Uttar Pradesh and I had to go from playing an 18 year-old, to a 45 year-old without a pause, because we shot the entire film at one go. If I had time, I would&rsquo;ve prepared for the part and put on some weight to pull off an ageing woman&rsquo;s role. But there was no time to make a smoother transition.&rdquo; Richa had to rely on prosthetics to add bulk to her midriff and wrinkles to her face. To play an 80 year-old, Richa observed her grandmother. &ldquo;My naani lives with me in Delhi. I aped her body language and mannerisms.&rdquo; Richa&rsquo;s transformation into a fiery, rural wife of a gangster in Wasseypur has earned her new respect in Bollywood. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been in Mumbai and in the Hindi film industry for about six years but no one paid any attention to me. I was dismissed as a model and an airhead from Delhi. People patronised me by speaking to me in Hindi, as if I couldn&rsquo;t follow English. I am a product of St Stephen&rsquo;s College, but was treated like a nobody. I started my film career five years ago with a role in Dibakar Bannerjee&rsquo;s Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye. I went on the sets with a jar of cream and a tube of Vaseline. I thought that was all the makeup I&rsquo;d need,&rdquo; she says. Richa&rsquo;s next release after Gangs Of Wasseypur 2 will be Tamanche, a Bonnie &amp; Clyde-style crime caper about a pair of criminals on the run. Says Richa, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to think Wasseypur is a new beginning for my career. I don&rsquo;t want to be perceived as this Delhi ki ladki who has to be spoken to in Hindi. I am fine with the rashtra bhasha. But I&rsquo;ve no problems being as &lsquo;cool&rsquo; as other Bollywood actors &mdash; if speaking in fluent English is how cool is defined here, that is.&rdquo;

The actor will age from 45 to 80 in her role as a matriarch who takes over her dead husband's empire

Richa to 'age' for Wasseypur 2

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