Bollywood sources have stated that after having made her debut with Monsoon Wedding way back in 2001, Tillotama Shome is only now coming into her own and exploring the “deep end” with films like Hindi Medium and A Death In The Gunj, and by juggling platforms. The actor says she is happily figuring out the strokes.
Tillotama told in an email interview. “It has been an exciting phase for her as, in the last 15 months, she had played a ‘yes’ game and done seven films, hosted a TV show (‘Dristhi Documentaries’) and travelled with Rajat Kapoor’s play ‘What is Done, Is Done’ in the US and India. She just wanted to jump into the deep end and figure out the strokes".
To cite an example, she took on the role of a snobbish education consultant in Hindi Medium, which is a character that the film’s casting director felt could break the stereotype around Tillotama’s “intense, serious, poor, rural, activist and maid” portrayals. She will also be seen as a mother in Konkona Sen Sharma’s soon-to-release directorial debut A Death In The Gunj.
Besides, working with an ensemble cast including actors like Tanuja, Vikrant Massey, Ranvir Shorey, Kalki Koechlin, Gulshan Devaiah, Jim Sarbh and the late Om Puri, and under Konkona’s direction, was akin to “living a dream” for her.
