Richa Chadha: We have first-mover advantage

One wonders if playing a character, season after season, can be exhausting. "I wouldn't say it's difficult but it takes a few readings of the script to nail her. I don't get tired or bored of Zarina," she says, adding, "In a film, we play a character for 50 days. In a show, we become that person [for few months] and subsequently, we detach. We personally evolve in the interim, and [when it's time for the next season], we pick up from where we left, in a renewed way."

Only a week ago, Indian cinephiles had their eyes peeled for the International Emmy Awards, rooting for Sacred Games' team to come home with the gong for the Best Drama Series. Flashback to a year earlier: Inside Edge was the first Indian web series to earn a nomination at the prestigious awards gala. Did she feel that the celebration was subdued compared to the reaction that Sacred Games' nomination elicited this year? "The show was the first to be nominated; it's immaterial whether it registers [with the audience] or not. And how are we determining the 'registering'? Basis a Twitter trend? That'll be forgotten the next day." While fans of the 10-part offering argue that it didn't get its due, Chadha doesn't share the view. "I don't feel that way at all. This was India's first [Amazon] original, the platform launched with it. We were trying to understand the grammar of the format. We've learnt from it, and made season 2 better. We have the first-mover advantage."

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