Konkona Sen Sharma On ‘Dolly Kitty…’: Felt Liberated To Not Play Perfect Woman

“I’ve been acting for more than 20 years so I know what it is. What I’m happy about is that this has happened!” For the 40-year-old actor, several layers to Dolly, a woman grappling with an uninterested husband, sexuality of her child, and differences with her sister, mirrored the complexity of one’s life, which seldom finds a “truthful” portrayal on screen. Sharma said she often finds that even in “progressive scripts”, the makers make a “concession” by not choosing to go all out to showcase a woman’s agency.

“You’re used to that. Rarely you feel there’s something which is telling it as it is. It isn’t making any apologies, doing away with niceties. I loved that attitude, that ‘hey we are all adults, this is how it is.’ “It doesn’t underestimate the viewer at all. I love Alankrita’s world, the way she inhabits and represents women…” Produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor, the film was earlier eyeing a theatrical release before the coronavirus pandemic forced theatres to shut shop. The film eventually landed on the streaming platform Netflix. The fact that “Dolly Kitty…” resonated with her personal idea of female liberation made the film special for Sharma, she said.

“I feel liberated as a woman, in the way I live my life. However, it’s not always reflected in the world around me. So I feel privileged but also isolated. “That’s why one is so pleased to have come across a space where people like Ekta have supported the film, Alankrita is writing films like these.” Sharma empowerment is different for every woman but the film talks about the idea and “Hopefully that will start a conversation”. “Dolly Kitty…” also stars Vikrant Massey, Amol Parashar and Aamir Bashir.