Girija Oak Godbole interview: ‘If you have to get your due, you get it’
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She has been a film and theatre actor for years, but a few of her recent projects have suddenly given Girija Oak Godbole’s career a boost – her role as the disgruntled wife in The Perfect Family, the simple housewife who brings innocence to the all-male ensemble in the crime film Inspector Zende, the tragic heroine of Dostoevsky’s White Nights in the musical stage adaptation, Chandni Raatein.
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Oak Godbole will be seen next in the Netflix series Hello Bacchon on March 6. She wears her show-stopping beauty lightly, has no need for an entourage, and gives equal importance to her personal life as to her work. Excerpts from an interview.
You have been an actor for a while, but some viewers have only just discovered you after The Perfect Family.
It actually happened because of this one clip that went viral as part of a podcast that I was doing with Lallantop. It was one of those bizarre viral moments where I was called the Blue Sari Girl. Suddenly, everybody is like, “Who is she? who is she?”
It’s fascinating how this works, and what people might like. Something blows up and suddenly everybody is talking about you and discovering things that you have done and then those are being shared and reshared. There is no design to...