‘I’m not fascinated with making a personality likeable’

Whereas most actors would keep away from such a task in concern of judgment, Kritika Kamra says she is unfazed by how her character within the Vijay Varma-starrer Matka King shall be perceived. Set within the smoky underbelly of Nineteen Sixties Bombay, she performs a girl who enters a morally complicated relationship with a married man, absolutely conscious of what it entails. It’s the sort of position cinema has traditionally flattened into labels — the opposite girl — the one you’re meant to dislike.

“I do know that the character goes to be judged. And I’m welcoming that judgment,” she says plainly. “I’m not fascinated with making a personality likeable. That’s not my purpose.” For Kamra, the job isn’t to melt a personality however to know her with out apology. “Infidelity and jealousy are very human. Relationships are messy. They aren’t black and white. If we begin making ethical statements by way of tales, then we’re simplifying one thing that isn’t easy.”