Nushrratt Bharuccha on Ajeeb Daastaans, breaking out of her on-screen 'urban girl' image and working on Ram Setu

Nushrratt Bharuccha marked her Bollywood debut in 2006 and was seen in films like Jai Santoshi Maa and Kal Kisne Dekha before she got the big break with Dibakar Banerjee’s critically acclaimed LSD: Love Sex Aur Dhoka, the 2010-release crime-drama that Bharuccha says played a big role in helping her reach where she’s now. You know they are around you and at some point in our lives everybody has done something grey.” While most actors don’t find much difference between shooting for a feature film or a short, Bharuccha feels that it is a challenge to get to that exact emotion, exact rhythm, or sur of the scene and character in a very short time. Bharuccha, who has broken the stereotype of her urban girl image in the most powerful ways with her last few performances, has more surprises in the bag with films like Vishal Furia’s Chhori, Ram Setu alongside Akshay Kumar and Jacqueline Fernandez, and Hurdang with Vijay Varma and Sunny Kaushal. A few days back the shoot of Ram Setu in Mumbai was halted after Akshay Kumar and few other crew members were tested covid positive, and Bharuccha says, “But I am glad that we could at least do those three days of shoot and we detected the problem in the time frame that we did and took the necessary precautions”.