Mumbai: In an Exclusive Interview with Shreya Chaudhry, she shares her thoughts on receiving the Best Actress award at the IIFA Digital Awards 2025. She discusses the challenges of portraying her character, finding similarities with Tamannaah, and the pressure to outdo herself in the second season. Shreya also reflects on her personal and professional growth since "Bandish Bandits" and her on-screen chemistry with Ritwik Bhowmik. Additionally, she gives a hint about her upcoming Bollywood films, offering a glimpse into her future projects.
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00:00Absolutely, a dream come true. I am so grateful to the entire IFA team, the jury, whoever
00:11voted for me, the audience, because it was a big dream of mine. When I started my journey,
00:19I used to think that one day I will get an award. And when I got the award, I was so
00:25happy. I think I was very nervous and I somehow made myself calm and composed and gave a speech.
00:36But inside, I felt like screaming and dancing. So, I am just really happy and grateful.
00:44What was my biggest challenge? I don't know about challenge, but I would say there were
01:00a lot of things that kind of I did not want to let people down with. When I read the entire
01:09arc of Tamannaah's character, I was very, very excited as an actor because there is
01:14a lot that she goes through. She leaves this world of being famous and popular and goes
01:20back to music school. And after that, she makes mistakes also. She is not some perfect
01:25human being. So, just all of those beats, they were very real. So, I was hoping that
01:33I can play all those beats and do justice to the writing because people have loved and
01:39showered so much love on the show and my character that I just wanted to do well.
01:51I don't know what, you know, in season one, I didn't think Tamannaah and I were very similar.
01:55In season two, I stopped thinking like that. I was like, you know, this is a character
01:59that I have to play. And it was very beautiful because Anand sir, my director, gave me this
02:04advice, which is something he had heard from the actor, Javier Bardem, where he said that
02:09an actor has to be their character's best defence lawyer. To uske liye, you have to
02:14really fall in love with, you know, the character that you're playing to kind of understand
02:20why is this character responding this particular way for it to look like it's not just
02:25something that's written but it's coming from within. So, I stopped thinking whether
02:29we're similar or not. I just started learning from Tamannaah. So, I'd like to say forget
02:34similarities. I've learned a lot from Tamannaah's character.
02:42You know, like I said earlier that I was maybe wanting to do well. It was more because I
02:49just thought the writing was so beautiful and I wanted to do justice to it. And I was
02:53very excited for people to watch it. But other than that, I don't think I'm in a place
02:59right now to be stressing about these things. I'm just happy that I get to do the work
03:03that I'm doing. And I'm just very grateful to the audience that they waited, you know,
03:07for our show. We took a little bit of time but not for a second did any of the audience
03:13forget. So, I don't think I was stressing about anything. I was just hoping we make
03:19a good show overall.
03:24I think Bandish Bandits has really given me a lot in my career. I really owe everyone,
03:32you know, who's connected with that show so much because it gave me an audience. It gave
03:39me a feeling of being seen and heard which is so important for an artist. So, I'm eternally
03:48grateful to Bandish Bandits and of course, Anand and Amrit because maybe I can't put it
03:54into words but Bandish Bandits has really given me everything that I know and is probably
03:58the reason I'm sitting here speaking to you.
04:06You know, luckily in season one we had such a great rapport while we were shooting and
04:11I think that's what you can see and translate it on screen as chemistry because the two
04:16of us were just each other's support system. We were both equally excited, equally, I wouldn't
04:23say nervous but equally like, you know, wanting to do well. So, we would really push each
04:27other to do well and be there for each other. We really understood each other in terms of,
04:32you know, if somebody was having a bad day or, you know, we would advise each other.
04:37So, I think that friendship, that bond that we formed in season one only got stronger
04:43in season two. So, when we met on the sets of season two, we were firstly very emotional
04:50and just very excited to, you know, be able to play these two characters of Radhe and
04:55Tamanna again and their journeys are so different and beautiful in season two.
04:59So, it was a lot of fun and I think that's what, you know, you see when you watch the show.
05:03The hint is maybe but I, you know, unfortunately cannot say anything right now but trust me
05:16when I can, I will be screaming on the top of my voice.