Picking the brains of an ‘accidental actor’, ‘reluctant director’, and such an insouciantly cool being

A recurring shot in Rohan Sippy’s murder mystery, Search: The Naina Murder Case (Jio-Hotstar), is of the two cops leading the said investigation, Konkona Sen Sharma, Surya Sharma, walking side-by-side, before the camera.

Konkona is naturally petite, barely making it to Surya’s shoulders. Surya’s supposed to be the well-built badass from Delhi. And yet, whether in that walk, or any other scene, it’s easy to tell, who’s the more innately confident/commanding presence on the screen: Konkona, of course. Read More

“In my head, I really feel I’m tall; like tall, tall,” she smiles.

Embodying characters, especially furthest from their selves, is probably what great actors do for a living. K

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