In the hyper-competitive world of clickbait headlines, pretend information, and the place truth is stranger than fiction, Sonali Bendre’s Amina Sheikh is a self-righteous editor-in-chief.
Returning on screens as soon as once more in season 2 of ZEE5’s thriller collection “The Broken News”.
“I am not the kind of person who can keep playing a character on and on and on. However for me for lack of a better word I tend to get bored I want to try new things and move forward. I think that is also true for my character Amina, which I find attractive. She is at a certain age and has lived this life where she has seen power being on top of her game. From that to accept that the times have changed and then say, okay, I give up! And how she adapts and picks herself up, and evolves, that was the beauty of the character. Like me she too wants to move ahead”, says Sonali Bendre.
However, she confesses that she is having fun with her journey as an actor extra so than when she made her debut.
“I was so raw when I got into the industry. I was not trained as an actor nor was I trained as a dancer. I was just fumbling and learning on the job. And that kept me nervous. I never really enjoyed the journey. You’re on top of the game when you’re enjoying the journey and what you’re doing on a day-to-day basis, it was not so then.”
However, she narrates an attention-grabbing anecdote with journalists, confessing that many instances the tales and headlines which got here out appeared that the media had created their model of her.
“It was extra like they had been speaking about any person which even I did not know.
So it got here to a degree when it saved taking place I simply shut myself, and refused to defend or clarify. So throughout promotions, I’d generally give completely different tales to the identical journalist, and they might not even react, which was clear that they weren’t all in favour of listening to me. That entertained me quite a bit.”
The Broken News which additionally stars Jaideep Alhawat and Shriya Pilgaonkar in pivotal roles, will premiere on May 3 on ZEE5.
