Once upon a time ageism was huge in Bollywood. Munjya actress Mona Singh talks about how with OTT, women’s roles are changing for good. Female actors now have the opportunity to experiment with different roles.
Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and written (dialogue and screenplay) by Niren Bhatt, Munjya is a tale all the way from the mysterious and marvelous Konkan coast. Edited excerpts from the interview: Tell us about your experience of doing Munjya ****, the preparation for the role and how scary was it? The preparation is always the workshop. You see, we have various sessions of readings and workshops so that you don’t waste any time learning lines and learning what you’re going to do about your body language and stuff.
So that was the prep. But, yes, when you shoot, when you’re shooting for a film which is, you know, so CGI influenced, you need to be more imaginative because most of the things that you see around you is green screen. So you don’t see the actual character of Munjya , you have to imagine.
How did you read up on the culture Mona, what is it like? So when filmmaker Aditya Sarpotdar approached me with the script, I had no idea about Munjya . I didn’t know that in the Konkan belt, there are these kinds of folklores. Yes, I’ve lived in Mumbai and Pune but I was not exposed to this culture.
So when we were on sets, we had a lot of Marathi actors and everyone was from the same region. It was only the three of us that weren’t Marathi so we were just t.