I will get a chance to ‘perform’ in Savitri: Reshmi Ghosh

If we say that veteran actress Reshmi Ghosh is enacting one more negative role, what’s new in that, you would say.

But according to Reshmi, Goolika, of Life OK’s Savitri, is very different from the negative roles that she normally gets to play. “One of the other reasons why I said yes to this project was that it was one in the supernatural genre. Here in this show, I play a pretty strong character unseen before in a daily soap,” she avers.

The show is a take on Savitri and Satyavan’s saga, right ? “Yes, however we have added the reincarnation element in the present era in order to engage in a better way with the audiences. The main antagonist Rahukaal is dead at the moment and my character is trying very hard to bring her brother (Rahukaal) back to life. Since it is a novel concept, the channel and production house (Flying Turtle) are trying very hard to make it look classy and not tacky.”

Reshmi has been around the TV scene since a long time starting with Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Since then, she has done over 14/15 shows and some Bengali films as well. “I always make it a point to essay different characters, some of them like Maan Rahe Tera Pitaah and Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo did not work out, but then these things keep on happening. I really liked my character in my last Sahara One show. The audiences have always seen me as a glam English speak vamp, but in Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage, I played a small town girl who is struggling to speak in the lingua franca of the world.”

Here Reshmi makes a big admission. She says that one of the reasons why she has survived so long was the fact that during her initial years, she did not look at money. “I rather took it as a learning curve. Had I been picky over budgets then, I would have been sitting at home now,” she observes.

And how is your chemistry with your co- stars? “The screenplay and the story is such that I am mostly shooting alone, hence we don’t get the chance to meet,” Reshmi quips.

Although it is still early days, Reshmi is already getting a good feedback from the audience regarding her character and look in Savitri. “Some people feel that it is over the top, but that how it is meant to be,” she admits.

Before she bids us goodbye, Reshmi, who recently got married, has no qualms that she does not get a chance to play the sweet bahu? “I don’t think anybody will give me those types of roles and I am happy playing a vamp. For, I am a sweet bahu in my real life and my mother-in-law will definitely vouch for that,” she laughs out.