Shriya Pilgaonkar on why Mirzapur made her greater than an OTT star

As Mirzapur: The Film continues its robust run on the field workplace, Shriya Pilgaonkar is experiencing a milestone that feels unreal – her first 100-crore theatrical success. For an actor whose most substantial physique of labor over the previous few years has been on OTT, the response to Mirzapur has bolstered her determination to consciously widen her canvas and return to theatrical cinema. With Haiwaan, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan and directed by Priyadarshan, additionally arriving this month, Pilgaonkar finds herself at a juncture the place she is trying to transfer seamlessly between mediums with out permitting both to outline her.

“With Mirzapur, we have been hopeful, however we could not have gauged this scale as a result of it was an experiment. The collection has a cult following, however the viewers relationship with it has been via OTT and digital, so it was laborious to know the way that will translate right into a theatrical viewers,” she says.