She will soon start shooting for Nandita Das’s movie Manto with Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Deepali Singh (DNA; December 26, 2016)

Rasika Dugal has been on an overdrive for the past few months. While her short film Chutney with Tisca Chopra and Adil Hussain garnered more than 15 million views within a week of its release online, her television show POW sees her in a pivotal role. She is consolidating her presence online with the web series Humorously Yours. She will soon start shooting for Nandita Das’s movie Manto with Nawazuddin Siddiqui. “For an actor, there are long periods of no work and suddenly, a lot of work. I have been on the other side for a long time, so I’m not cribbing at all. I tell my friends, these are good problems,” says the Vagina Monologues actress.

The shooting for Manto begins from February next year and Rasika, who plays Manto’s wife in the movie, is full of praise for her director and co-star Nawaz. “Nandita, Nawaz and Manto, I couldn’t have asked for a better combination. Any line of Manto’s is a quotable quote and it must have been really hard for Nandita to edit what to keep and what to retain,” she says. As for Nawaz, Rasika adds that it’s a joy to watch the actor at work. “We have had a couple of readings for the movie. I admire Nawaz’s work and I always enjoy watching actors who I respect, go about their process. How they prepare, how they don’t, what they choose to give importance to. People like him and Irrfan Khan, who I worked with earlier, are much senior to me, much more experienced, so it’s a learning process for me.”