The bubbly girl role from Sasural Genda Phool brought Ragini Khanna a lot of popularity but the actor says it also pigeonholed her as a performer.
Khanna, who is making her film debut with Gurgaon, says she hopes the Shanker Raman-directed movie helps her move beyond her established image. “After Sasural…, I only got parts in TV that required me to play the happy bubbly girl. So, I was like, ‘Why can’t people see me as an actor?’ and ‘Why are they just so stuck up with the image?’ Because when I did Radha Ki Betiyaan… or Bhaskar Bharti, they were way different characters than Suhana,” Khanna told PTI.
The actor says she knew that she had a lot more to her as an actor than just playing the chirpy characters. And that is when Gurgaon happened to her.
The film, featuring Pankaj Tripathi and Akshay Oberoi, is a dark family thriller.
“This was the film I was looking for. Because I wanted to challenge myself as an artiste and I wanted to tell people that Suhana was not Ragini Khanna. Ragini is an artiste. She is capable of doing all the other parts as well as Suhana.”
Khanna, who is making her film debut with Gurgaon, says she hopes the Shanker Raman-directed movie helps her move beyond her established image. “After Sasural…, I only got parts in TV that required me to play the happy bubbly girl. So, I was like, ‘Why can’t people see me as an actor?’ and ‘Why are they just so stuck up with the image?’ Because when I did Radha Ki Betiyaan… or Bhaskar Bharti, they were way different characters than Suhana,” Khanna told PTI.
The actor says she knew that she had a lot more to her as an actor than just playing the chirpy characters. And that is when Gurgaon happened to her.
The film, featuring Pankaj Tripathi and Akshay Oberoi, is a dark family thriller.
“This was the film I was looking for. Because I wanted to challenge myself as an artiste and I wanted to tell people that Suhana was not Ragini Khanna. Ragini is an artiste. She is capable of doing all the other parts as well as Suhana.”
