Nidhi Bisht wins praises for her performance in “Maamla Legal Hai” a web series
Nidhi Bisht wins praises for her performance in “Maamla Legal Hai” a web series
With the web series Maamla Legal Hai making it to Netflix’s top 10 most-watched series of the week, Nidhi Bisht’s dialogue delivery resonate with people from all walks of life. She plays as Sujata Negi in the project.
Notedly, the actress delivers best puns and has impeccable comic timing. Her character’s introduction ‘Didi daleel deti nahi, didi khud hi daleel hain’ stands true for her real self as well.
Earlier, hailed as Amitabh Bachchan of Bhojpuri films,
Ravi Kishan was heaped with praises for decoding the role of VD Tyagi.
Nidhi embarked on her film journey spanning more than a decade ago. But, she feels it’s just the beginning and she has a long way to go. After having been a writer and director for Girliyapa in which she also acted in a few scenes, for Nidhi writing was a mode to survive when she wasn’t getting many acting projects, but it sure helped her become a better performer on stage as well as on screen.
She recalls, that It gives a feeling of greatness when director and writers gave her the liberty to improvise on the sets. It gave her confidence.
We know our lines when we go on the sets, but there’s always the scope to make a scene better. And it comes from the collective efforts of co-actors, writers, directors and art directors.”
Before setting foot to Mumbai’s Bollywood, the ‘Mecca’ of Hindi films, Nidhi, the Jamia Millia Islamia law graduate had worked in a legal firm for a year.
She went on to elaborate that the role of a struggling lawyer in ‘Maamla Legal Hai’ marks the full circle for her. She has been a theatre enthusiast all, but it took her one year of law practice to realise what she really wanted to do. When she told her parents about her dreams, her father said, ‘Beta our kuch na sahi, par ek baar kisi project me kale coat wala (lawyer) role jaroor kar lena’. And she feels proud to play a lawyer. In a way it has also marked her official entry into the digital medium because it’s one of the prominent roles in a big series, on a big platform.
Working as a corporate lawyer for a brief period, however, didn’t help Nidhi much when she tried to crack the role of Sujata, who for one was part of the corporate circle, which had English speaking lawyers, the crème de la crème of law and justice. It took her several visits to Delhi district courts and Bombay High Court to study women lawyers and their behavior, especially those, who don’t have their own chamber.
She’s for sure that more people can relate to her character because it encapsulates many Sujatas in the bheed of lawyers in the Indian judiciary system.
Nidhi has written for shows like ‘Permanent Roommates’ and ‘Home Shanti’. She also served as creative director for TVF and creative director for Girliyapa taking it newer heights.
But does this behind-the-scenes experience help her to be a better actor? To which, she responded that by having worked as a director or storyteller, you have a fair idea of what the writer or director wants from you. In other words, one knows how to transform that writing onto the screen.
But to say, it is always an advantage would be wrong. Also, she believes, she is still in the initial stage of her acting.
Film “Maamla Legal Hai feels authentic and organic because the director Rahul Pandey had done his homework in keeping the balance amidst the three pillars of filmmaking, writing, direction and acting just like three pillars of Indian Constitution of which the judiciary is a part.
They had done workshops with our co-actors which acted as a great ice-breaker. He made sure that we behaved like we had spent 15-30 years in the court and with each other.
News Edit K.V.Raman
