“I Was Really Seduced By The Intimacy Of The Camera As A Form”

The vivacious SWARA BHASKER has made her mark in B-Town through back-to-back power packed performances. In conversation with Rhea Kapadia, she opens up about her journey and how much she cherishes being in this profession.

- Rhea Kapadia

Did you always want to become an actor? Well, I don’t know about always but the thing is that we are a cinema watching nation. As a child I was completely obsessed with Chitrahaar and Superhit Muqabla because my father and mother didn’t allow us to have cable for the longest time and my only entertainment in life came from Chitrahaar and Superhit Muqabla. This was when I was eight or nine years old. I think my fascination for films started from that and of course, I forgot about it as I grew up. But when I was in college, I again had the desire to be on the silver screen. I think cinema is a very intimate medium. The camera comes very close to the actor’s body so even if you change the way you breathe, it is registered on camera and I was really seduced by the intimacy of the camera as a form. So I think that’s why I was very interested in being an actor. So just like everybody I also landed up in Bombay by the Mumbai Rajdhani that brought me from Delhi to Bombay. So you know how that shot in films, the typical shot where gaon se aake log apna boriya bistraa lekar pohoch rahe hai. I also landed like that in the middle of a sea of taxis that you see at CST.