Actor Raveena Tandon says whereas she is happy for her digital debut Aranyak resulting from its attention-grabbing script, her youngsters’ purpose of pleasure is that their mom shall be seen on streaming large Netflix’s present.
Tandon, one of many prime Bollywood actors of the Nineties, is finest recognized for her movies Mohra, Andaz Apna Apna, Laadla, Dulhe Raja, Shool, Aks, Daman, Satta and Maatr.
The 46-year-old actor described Aranyak as an intriguing sequence which traces the journey of her character, cop Kasturi Dogra.
“She has unimaginable power. It’s not that she is attempting to degree herself in a person’s world, however the way in which she proves herself higher than anybody else, that’s what attracted me to the present and the character.
“Being related to the Netflix household is a pleasure. Even my youngsters are excited and inform me, ‘Mother you’re going to be on Netflix!’ It’s a cool factor for them. I’ve loved the expertise,” mentioned Tandon, who’s mom to 4 youngsters.
The actor was talking at a particular occasion of Netflix, See What’s Subsequent India, the place the streamer introduced its 2021 slate for films and sequence.
Produced by Roy Kapur Movies and Ramesh Sippy Leisure, Aranyak options Tandon as a cop who joins fingers along with her city-bred substitute Angad (Parambrata Chatterjee) when a international teenage vacationer disappears in a Himalayan city.
The sequence is directed by Vinay Vyakul.
Tandon mentioned the crew shot the present in a marathon three-month schedule amid the pandemic with excessive security measures.
“Once we had been capturing in Himachal Pradesh, we might typically hear of COVID instances, how shootings needed to be stopped. However our security protocols had been so environment friendly that we may handle to complete all the schedule with out an incident,” she added.
The actor mentioned that although the Hindi movie trade has progressively chronicled highly effective women-led tales each decade, it has solely gotten higher with the arrival of streaming platforms.
She believes that the digital medium has opened up the viewers to be extra receptive for various content material, which in flip has empowered actors and filmmakers.
“We now have see ladies take cost within the trade however with a worldwide platform like Netflix coming in, even our viewers has change into conscious. They know of various cinemas, watch worldwide content material…”
“Which supplies us a possibility to discover untold tales, completely different format, experiment with cinema. Even the way in which they view an Indian lady, their perspective has modified. Ladies protagonists have been extra outstanding than the male ones, particularly on Netflix,” Tandon added.