After her National Award win for Kutch Express, Manasi Parekh took on Priyanka in Netflix’s Chumbakk, drawn to the character’s layered writing and comic energy. She says motherhood helped her connect with Priyanka’s conversations, vulnerabilities and equation with her children

Delnaaz Irani plays an overbearing Parsi mother in Chumbak and says she embraced the character’s quirks without reducing her to a caricature. She also reveals filmmaker Aatish Kapadia had written the role keeping her in mind