100 Hours 100 Stars: Shibani Dandekar Happy That Four More Shots Please Didn't Have Her Playing A Blink And Miss NRI Friend

Shibani Dandekar joined Fever FM’s special tribute to covid-19 warrior, 100 hours 100 stars, and spoke about how she’s spending her quarantine time. The actress also talked at length about being a part of Four More Shots Please season 2 and how the show was first time a role where she wasn’t cast as an NRI friend.

Talking about the web series Shibani hinted that the makers were apprehensive that she might no be okay playing a 41 year old. “When I was told about Sushmita’s part, it was really interesting conversation I had with Rangeeta. She was like listen I have this part for you but it might be a little bit older than what you are expecting and I was like well how old is this character. She was like she’s 41 and I was like Rangeeta I am 40, it’s okay. I am ok to do it,” she revealed.

Divulging details of how she felt connected to the character the actress added, “It was instantly something that I loved. I feel like Sushmita is somebody we see so often like this power broker who is in a relationship of convenience for sorts. She somebody who’s trying to show face, has this mask onto the world about what her real love life is actually like. So often we put things aside and brush things under the carpet and go out and face the world as if everything is okay because that’s just what is expected.”

She candidly accepted that her previous roles didn’t have much to offer with her mostly being approached to play the NRI friend but Four More Shots Please had more on offer for her.“So it was a really interesting character for me and something I have not been able to play before. One of the main things is that I have always been given these NRI friend roles that have never really amounted to anything.  It’s like blink and miss and shift, it’s gone. For the first time this wasn’t that, it was an opportunity for me to actually do something,” Shibani said.

She continued adding how it was a fulfilling opportunity to play Sushmita, “I was really grateful for the opportunity in which to do something so that was really important as an actor. You want to not be just cast based on looking a certain part, I mean if have been hired as an NRI because I am an NRI and because I’d be good as the friend. But then there needs to be some substance to it, you need to actually do this. So I felt like for the first I was given something with not very many scenes but still something to do.”