EXCLUSIVE: When It Came To References For My Role In SIR, All I Found Was Porn, Says Actress Tillotama Shome

Last night, the Jagran film festival saw its closure for this year. But it was not without screening some beautiful films from across the country. One film amongst those amazing line ups was director Rohena Gera’s SIR. The film premiered at the Jagran film festival and it featured actress Tillotama Shome in the role of a domestic help called Ratna and Vivek Gomber as Ashwin who played the role of the SoBo millionaire who falls in love with his maid.

In a heart of hearts conversation with Me, Tillotama revealed a lot not just about the film but also about her mindset and how it changes during the course of filming it.

The actress feels pathetic that in our country the classist mindset is so deeply ingrained that we as its inhabitants almost practise it every day habitually. She further revealed, she couldn’t find any references for the role she had to portray and all she could find was just porn! Quipped she, “There are no references if you look on Google and you try to find stories of relationships between a man and his domestic help all that comes up is pornography. It is so heartbreaking, so vulgar, so exploitative that I felt, in my country, the only way we can imagine (in creative space, IN FICTION) friendship between a man and his domestic help is in pornography.”

The actress went on to claim that porn is what Indian minds are restricted to when such relationships come into play. She said, “Our imagination can’t go beyond that, there is no existing reference so I followed what Rohena told me and she told me one thing clearly, to make sure that in no point Ratna (the name of Tillotama's character) loses her dignity. Because you can buy a lot of things in life but not dignity. The inherent sense of self-respect is not something money can buy.”

Tillotama also won the Best Actress award at the Jagran Film festival for the same film.

We at Desimartini.com hope this bigotry gets over and done with and we can take things the way they are without trying to cover them up with sheets and blankets made out of our own pre-conceived notions!

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