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Small WONDER!

“ACTING IS AN EMOTIONAL JOB. THERE ARE DAYS WHEN YOU RETURN FROM A 12-HOUR SHOOT, DRAINED BY THE EMOTIONAL SCENES. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE; YOU’RE IN YOUR OWN ZONE. YOU NEED THAT SUPPORT FROM YOUR FAMILY”

Her talent is not commonplace. Though she excels in portraying the commonplace, adding a dash of the compelling and the contemporary to it. Shweta Tripathi Sharma’s range can be gauged by her ‘report card’ as she describes her textured portfolio. The 34-year-old actor’s inventory includes films, shorts, television and web series.

A decade ago, she won notice as the tomboyish Zenia in the television series . In Neeraj Ghaywan’s award-winning (2015), as Shalu, she dares to fall in love outside her caste, while Shlok Sharma’s (2017) had her as a schoolgirl, romancing her much-older teacher. Last year, she featured in the web series as Golu Gupta, someone who’s not bashful about her sexuality. While had her play a bride, who chucks her wedding over a dowry demand. Qasim Khallow’s drama-comedy, , featured her as a dancer, who develops alopecia and loses her hair and her self-esteem. The adventurous actor, who doesn’t speak Tamil, went on to do Saravana Rajendran’s , where she played a circus performer. What’s more she even dubbed for the South film.

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