'HARDEST PART WAS THE TWO- DECADE WAIT'

A much sought-after actor today, Tillotama Shome, began her theatre career in Delhi. With back-to-back releases, Kota Factory and Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper, a conversation with the actor on playing new-age women

- MONIKA MONALISA

A still from Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper From Kota Factory It was liberating to play a woman who can ask for what she wants. If asking does not work, then she is one who can fight for what she wants. I hope by playing these strong fictional women, I can become better at asking for what I want.

Tillotama Shome, actor MONIKA MONALISA S HE is among the finest actors in Indian cinema...and the compliment is not new to Tillotoma Shome. While it seems like her roles are effortless, the actor insists that like others, she faces her own challenges to make it appear so. "I am not at ease, I am always struggling with some aspect of the character, mostly the language. If you sense an ease, perhaps, it is the ease of a duck, gliding through the water, but paddling furiously for life beneath," says Shome, who began her theatre career in Delhi. She spent some of her growing up years in Bengaluru.