Adah Sharma turns 32 today. She gained fame through movies like 'The Kerala Story,' 'Sunflower Season 2,' and 'Bastar: The Naxal Story.' Fans love her acting in these films. On her special day, let's hear from Adah herself as she shares her journey in this podcast.
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00:00 When we were making Kerala Shodhi, we were making a very small film.
00:03 I'm saying budget-wise.
00:05 We made it, but I acted like I was doing a film worth a thousand crores.
00:12 I'm very blessed to be getting so many different roles.
00:14 I hope I get roles in the future where I can play different roles.
00:20 I feel that God has finally decided that this movie will go to them.
00:25 We can ask why only Adah Sharma for the highest female grossing film?
00:31 Sudeep sir said, "Shout so much that your throat bursts."
00:34 I don't want a serene voice.
00:37 I don't want to take a left from Dantewada.
00:40 I don't care about the bell.
00:44 I don't care about the bell.
00:46 I shouldn't be polite or soft-spoken.
00:48 (music)
00:55 I'll talk about your outfit.
00:57 You've always been very simple and different.
01:00 What do you think about your marriage and love life?
01:05 I had three releases in a month.
01:08 I didn't get much time for styling.
01:10 One day, my grandmother was at home.
01:12 We were trying on clothes.
01:14 She knew that my next film was not in Hindi.
01:18 It was in another language.
01:20 She asked me what I was doing.
01:22 I said I was trying on clothes and wasting time.
01:24 I had to study.
01:25 I said I didn't want to see what I was wearing.
01:27 She told me to wear my sarees.
01:29 She told me not to waste time on clothes.
01:31 She told me to focus on acting.
01:33 She brought three of her old sarees.
01:38 She told me...
01:41 This is my own T-shirt.
01:43 I wore it like a blouse.
01:45 This is my grandmother's saree.
01:47 It's very old.
01:49 I'll ask her exactly how old it is.
01:51 I remember when I was very young.
01:53 It was 2-3 years old.
01:55 It's a 15 rupee saree that I know.
01:57 I should get a video of her saying it.
01:59 It's like 1.5 rupees.
02:01 Even when she said 15, I said 15.
02:03 She said 15 was very expensive.
02:06 Whenever she got this saree.
02:09 I have a lot of her sarees now.
02:11 I thought I'll wear it.
02:13 You'll be happy.
02:15 It looks good and it saves me some time.
02:19 I enjoy wearing it.
02:21 You have released back to back.
02:25 Kerala Story, Buster, Sunflower Season 2.
02:30 How is your experience?
02:32 It's been a long journey.
02:34 We have experienced that.
02:36 We are following you from the South.
02:38 What would you like to say about the changes in your life?
02:43 The audience sees you differently in every movie.
02:47 How do you feel about that?
02:49 I'm really happy that the audience accepts me in different roles.
02:55 It's difficult for an actor.
02:58 Because the audience likes him in only one role.
03:01 After Kerala Story, a lot of people told me.
03:05 After 1920, a lot of people told me.
03:07 No, you'll do only one film.
03:10 After Kerala Story, people said, no, you'll do serious roles.
03:14 Then Sunflower came.
03:16 Sunflower has a lot of comedy and craziness in it.
03:20 Then Buster came, which is very serious.
03:23 After Kerala Story, there was Commando, where there is action.
03:27 I'm really blessed.
03:28 It's been 8 months since Kerala Story was released in theatre.
03:34 I'm very blessed that I'm getting so many different roles.
03:37 I hope I get roles in the future where I can play different roles.
03:44 Even if we talk about your role, as you said, Kerala Story was very sensitive.
03:49 Then you had a comedy role in Sunflower.
03:53 Then Buster had a very sincere role.
03:56 And when we talk about 1920, it was very unique.
03:59 How do you balance it when you get different roles?
04:04 I'm eager for different roles.
04:07 How to get a role is the question.
04:10 As an actor, you have to work hard for every role.
04:14 Of course, there are different preparations.
04:17 I wait for something different, which is different from the style.
04:22 So that I can work hard and do something new.
04:26 Even in Sarthak season 2, your role is very different.
04:30 What was the preparation for that?
04:33 Maybe it was the first time you were doing this kind of role.
04:35 Yes, absolutely.
04:36 I have never played such a bold and hot, charming bar dancer before.
04:44 She is a very strange kind of person.
04:49 She is keeping an eye on people and is involved in murder.
04:54 But I enjoyed it a lot.
04:56 I saw documentaries of many psychopaths.
04:59 I met a lot of bar dancers in real life.
05:03 I wanted to see them.
05:04 Because we are conscious of our bodies.
05:10 We are not that free.
05:13 And I saw the way those girls were sitting when they were not dancing.
05:18 They were sitting like this.
05:20 They were not talking to anyone.
05:21 But their body language was very open.
05:24 I tried to take that in my body language.
05:27 For dancing, you can copy the steps of the choreographer.
05:34 But it goes to the director and the writer.
05:42 The character that Vikas Bhel and Chaitali made of Rosie is a very unique character.
05:48 It is something different.
05:52 It was so well written that I had to just play it.
05:56 You have given back to back movies.
06:05 Is there a process for switching the character?
06:10 Or is it in your mind set?
06:12 You played a very strong role in Bastar.
06:17 You played a very strong role in Sunflower Season 2.
06:20 It is very different from the other projects.
06:23 What is the process in your mind?
06:26 Do you feel that this is not the same Ada that you saw before?
06:31 Thank you.
06:32 That's the biggest compliment I think.
06:34 And any actor will be eager to hear that.
06:37 So thank you so much.
06:38 That means so much.
06:39 I think there are 1000 people in my mind.
06:43 I choose one by one.
06:46 But I try to do as much as I can to not look like Ada.
06:49 I like to observe people in real life.
06:53 Like you are talking to me, I am observing you.
06:56 I record in my brain.
06:58 Suppose I am playing a character, say of a journalist.
07:02 I will take something from your mannerism.
07:04 I am watching their mannerisms.
07:09 I observe a lot.
07:11 I would like to think so.
07:14 I learn something from any person, animal or anyone.
07:19 I record it in my brain.
07:21 I have files in my brain.
07:22 So when there is a character, I take that file from here.
07:27 How is your experience working with Sunil sir?
07:30 It was awesome.
07:32 I am so fortunate that I am doing comedy for the first time.
07:36 And with the best.
07:38 I think his comic timing is so nice.
07:42 Some people are good in verbal comedy.
07:45 Some people are good in slapstick.
07:47 I think he does everything.
07:48 All the kinds of comedy.
07:49 His character of Guthi.
07:51 We all really love that.
07:54 But he can do that and also serious comedy.
07:58 So I really look up to him as an actor.
08:00 I am lucky that I got to work with Sunflower.
08:02 If we talk about today's era.
08:04 You have performed in so many movies.
08:06 All three movies have been successful.
08:08 People remember your character.
08:10 And even now, the Kailash Tudi was such a movie.
08:12 That people didn't remember it.
08:14 Whether it was its story or your character.
08:16 People liked it so much.
08:18 But now it is the time that people are presenting big budget movies.
08:22 Like 2000 crores budget or 1000 crores budget.
08:25 So you are not part of three movies.
08:28 You are going to a historical movie.
08:30 Is there a reason for this?
08:32 Reason means.
08:35 God has given.
08:37 You must have got a big budget movie.
08:40 What was the reason that you rejected it?
08:42 You didn't like the story.
08:44 See I think there are thousand factors.
08:47 Who does a movie.
08:49 But I feel that finally God has decided.
08:52 That this movie will go to him.
08:54 We can ask why only Adarsh Sharma.
08:56 For the highest female grossing film.
08:58 Why take someone else.
09:00 I have got that too.
09:01 So I have learnt that I don't question.
09:03 Because to shine so much luck on someone.
09:06 I consider myself very lucky.
09:08 Like you said.
09:09 The way you were praising.
09:11 And you were saying about my characters.
09:13 I think as an actor you work for that.
09:16 By looking at the audience.
09:18 So I just hope I do good roles.
09:21 And the budget of the film.
09:22 Thank God I don't have it.
09:23 I am not a producer.
09:24 So someone else should take that stress.
09:26 I should focus on my acting.
09:28 And I don't know 1 crore or 1000 crores.
09:31 Or 100 crores or whatever crores.
09:34 I have to finance and make the film.
09:37 When there is a good character.
09:39 He should remember me and take.
09:41 But when we were making Kerala Shuri.
09:43 We were making a very small film.
09:45 I am saying budget wise.
09:47 It was an intimate film.
09:49 And we thought that we will release it in film festivals.
09:53 So we made it.
09:55 But now I have done acting.
09:57 Like I am doing a film worth 1000 crores.
10:01 So acting doesn't change.
10:02 If I am doing a music video.
10:04 Or an ad.
10:06 Or a film worth 1000 crores.
10:08 I keep the acting the same.
10:10 So that doesn't really matter for me.
10:13 It is the producers look out.
10:16 The acting in your film was worth 1000 crores.
10:20 It was better than that.
10:21 Thank you.
10:22 What more can I say.
10:24 Because then I don't know.
10:26 The price you said is priceless for me.
10:29 I have recorded it in my mind.
10:31 And I will play it everyday.
10:33 And I will say wow.
10:34 What a line this is.
10:35 So then I don't know.
10:36 Budget is it rupees that you get.
10:38 Or compliments.
10:40 This is a compliment for me.
10:42 So.
10:43 Last time we talked about Bastar.
10:45 Because we talked about Sunflower.
10:46 And Kerala Shuri.
10:47 But Bastar is not a story.
10:48 Bastar is a real story.
10:50 So when you got Bastar.
10:52 Did you read any historical things for it.
10:55 Or anything like that.
10:57 Yes I think any role.
10:59 Whether it is fictional or real life.
11:01 You should definitely do research.
11:03 Especially if it is real life.
11:05 Then definitely do research.
11:07 And I am playing a character.
11:09 Which is very different from me.
11:11 Her body language or anything.
11:13 I was lucky that I met the IG's there.
11:16 The girls who were in CRPF.
11:17 I met them.
11:18 So I did research.
11:20 We did voice modulation.
11:23 Workshops also.
11:25 And Mr. Sudeep said.
11:26 Shout so much that your throat bursts.
11:28 Because I want the voice.
11:30 I don't want a serene voice.
11:32 Not like that.
11:33 You shouldn't take left from Dantewada.
11:35 You should say Dantewada.
11:37 You know.
11:38 Or I don't care about the bell.
11:40 I shouldn't sound like that.
11:41 I don't care about the bell.
11:42 I shouldn't be polite or soft spoken.
11:44 So.
11:45 Yes I worked hard on that too.
11:47 And I am glad you are seeing that differently.
11:49 For an actor that's all I really want.
11:51 You are coming in the movie.
11:53 I will tell you about the color.
11:54 Thank you.
11:55 We have followed you from South.
11:57 Your projects from South.
11:59 I personally worked with Mr. Nitin.
12:02 Yes.
12:03 Your acting and simplicity.
12:06 People like that.
12:07 Thank you.
12:08 Did you see Hindi dub or Telugu?
12:10 I saw in Hindi.
12:11 But it wasn't my voice.
12:13 But the acting is good.
12:15 Thank you.
12:16 It connects.
12:17 Thank you.
12:18 I want to ask you.
12:19 You have done shooting there.
12:20 You have done issues in the Hindi industry.
12:22 Is there any difference?
12:24 In South and Hindi.
12:26 If we talk about shooting experience.
12:28 Or atmosphere.
12:29 Do you find any difference?
12:31 Or both are same?
12:33 Because audience says.
12:34 That there is something different.
12:35 No I think audience is same.
12:37 Like you said.
12:38 Finally it should connect.
12:39 No matter where you are.
12:41 You live anywhere in the world.
12:43 Like Kerala story.
12:44 Released in London.
12:45 And all.
12:46 And people who don't speak Hindi.
12:49 Malayalam and Hindi movie.
12:51 Kerala story.
12:52 They understand.
12:53 And their hearts.
12:54 That movie touched their hearts.
12:56 So I don't think language is a thing.
12:59 And actually Heart Attack.
13:00 Was my biggest film till then.
13:02 As in budget wise.
13:04 And Puri Jagannath.
13:06 Is like the biggest director there.
13:08 And Nitin is like a huge superstar.
13:10 And they took me.
13:12 In this movie where.
13:13 You know I am the solo lead.
13:14 Where there are 8 songs.
13:16 There was no dance.
13:18 Miming of the songs.
13:19 And all.
13:20 But no it's just connect.
13:22 I think finally.
13:23 And both the industries are same.
13:24 We had a DOP who came from Bombay.
13:26 So finally.
13:28 No I didn't really feel.
13:30 Very different.
13:31 Other than the language.
13:32 Which I learnt from the tuition teacher.
13:34 Because I want to know.
13:35 What people are saying about me.
13:36 So if I don't know the language.
13:38 And they are talking about me.
13:39 I don't like.
13:40 So I had a teacher.
13:41 And I learnt.
13:42 So after Kerala movie.
13:44 Your turning point in your career.
13:46 I would like to think.
13:48 So yes.
13:49 I would like to think.
13:50 Every movie should have a turning point.
13:52 In your career.
13:53 Different in this.
13:54 But Kerala story.
13:55 I think.
13:56 Gave me a big platform.
13:58 And.
13:59 I mean.
14:00 Yes.
14:01 People who don't know me.
14:03 I became a household name.
14:05 After that.
14:06 Because everyone has seen the film.
14:08 So maybe that way.
14:09 The turning point is.
14:10 Every movie.
14:11 From 1928.
14:12 My debut was turning.
14:13 But yes Kerala story.
14:14 Of course.
14:15 Put me on the map.
14:17 Thank you.
14:18 Thank you so much.
14:19 Thank you so much.
14:20 Thank you.
14:21 Thank you.
14:23 Thank you.
14:24 Thank you.
14:25 Thank you.
14:26 Thank you.
14:27 Thank you.
14:28 Thank you.