Sonakshi Sinha Talks Prime Video Thriller Series ‘Dahaad’: ‘It’s Really Like My Debut All Over Again’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood A-lister Sonakshi Sinha is making her streaming debut with Prime Video’s “Dahaad” (“Roar”). Sinha, whose father is the actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha, made her Bollywood debut with smash hit “Dabangg” (2010) and has starred in more than 30 films since then, alongside top actors including Rajinikanth, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar.

Set in a small, sleepy town in Rajasthan, western India, “Dahaad” is an eight-part crime drama that follows sub-inspector Anjali Bhaati (Sinha) and her colleagues at the local police station.

When a series of women are mysteriously found dead, Bhaati is tasked with the investigation.  “The most challenging aspect of the role was actually to keep it as real as possible, because coming from the school of cinema that I’ve been a part of, for so many years, there’s been times where there have been a few realistic roles, but there’s been mostly those commercial masala potboilers where they do expect a certain different kind of acting,” Sinha told Variety. “So, for me, it was challenging to keep it as real as possible in this one because of the nature of the show, because of the nature of all the characters in the show, and the way it was written, it was very realistic.

So I tried to not make it ‘filmi’ in any way. It had to be very straightforward, very neutral, very real.” “It’s really feeling like my actual debut all over again, because it was such unknown territory that I was stepping into.