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In addition to her acting career, Tisca Chopra has garnered substantial acclaim also as a writer-director, co-authoring two short films and directing another. The Bollywood star recently took a trip down memory lane and recalled how and when she decided to become a creator and start owning her narrative.
“In 2016, there was a particular director who strung me along for a bit of time. We started doing prep, costumes, lines, and everything. About four days before the shoot, he said they were going with someone younger. Then, he tried to fob it off by saying it’s the call of the producers. But I could see that it was just… I didn’t want to hear that anymore,” she said during a chat with Galatta Plus.
The actor added, “By that time, I also got a sense of the fact that there were things going on in my head that I had been ignoring for some time. I’ve had the benefit of working with wonderful directors and learning from them by watching their process and imbibing that. If youth and beauty are the only two things that are attractive in a particular market… my insides rebelled against that. If they are interested only in young and beautiful, it’s a very sad world we’re living in.”
During the interview, Tisca Chopra also spoke about the time she decided to become a creator and bankrolled the short film Chutney. “I had been doing this piece called Chutney at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai. It was based on Bhisham Sahni’s story. It too had morphed into something else by that time in my head. So, I narrated that to a few, very close people and we came up with the story and wrote it. The protagonist was neither good-looking nor young. Nor did she have any other privileges. She was not well-spoken and didn’t have a male heir or a child. And yet, she controls the narrative in that story,” she said.
Tisca Chopra was last seen in director Homi Adajania’s mystery thriller film Murder Mubarak, where she shared the screen with Pankaj Tripathi, Sara Ali Khan, Vijay Varma, Karisma Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia and Sanjay Kapoor.
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