This Friday, actor Maanvi Gagroo returned to the theatres after six years. That gap was driven by a lack of compelling scripts. So, we assumed her latest release, Heer Sara, must have ticked all the boxes for her to have boarded the Patralekha-starrer. “When Kartik [Chaudhry, director] and Manuj [Sharma, co-writer] told me, ‘We have this story about two girls on a road trip and they go on a bike trip from Indore to Puducherry,’ I got excited,” she says. 

Impressed with the script, Gagroo dived into the prep for the film, and was pleasantly surprised by the collaborative nature of her director and writer. “The more I was working on it, the more it was becoming like a collaborative project. Suddenly, it felt like I was involved in the characterisation. I would discuss with them how Indoris talk — their Hindi is different from how it’s spoken in Mumbai. So, I thought about how I could bring that to the character,” she says.