'I Didn't Work Because Of Lack of Good Offers'

'It's important to keep doing your work. Do what you understand and don't expect much.'

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We first met Patralekhaa in CityLights, where she played the wife of Rajkummar Rao. Today, they make up one of the talented couples working in Bollywood. Comparisons may be inevitable but Patralekhaa insists her journey is different from her husband's.

After a series of underwhelming projects since her 2014 debut, the actor seems to be re-shaping her career as seen from last year's terrific show IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack. The next is Ananth Mahadevan's period drama Phule in which she plays the historical figure Savitribai Phule.

“When you are playing like such powerful characters and you're doing this day in and day out, you derive a lot of strength from them,” Patralekhaa tells.

What are your favourite movies with strong female characters, not necessarily historical or biopics?

I like Sadma a lot. There are many movies but Sadma is one of the movies I can recall well.

How much did you know about Savitribai Phule before this project came to you?

She and Jyotiba Phule really worked for the well being of society.There’s so much written material available on the internet, so many books written by them, about them. They were such prominent figures. We haven't discovered anything new as such.

When you play such powerful characters, do their character traits rub off on you?

I am not sure about that. But does it empower me as a human being? Of course, it does. When you're playing like such powerful characters and you're doing this day in and day out, you derive a lot of strength from them.