How long does it take for an actor to find her way back to a character when a new season is set to roll? Shefali Shah, who returns as DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in the third season of Delhi Crime, says she wouldn’t know, for a simple reason — she never let the character leave her system. “There are parts that you do and move on. This is something I can’t move on from,” she starts.   

Her emotional attachment to the Netflix series is evident. But with the attachment comes nervousness, even though she has played the astute cop, who rarely misses a thing, for two seasons, even bagging an International Emmy nomination in 2023. “My biggest fear is that I’ll let Vartika and Delhi Crime down,” she admits candidly, before saying how the show elicits conflicting emotions in her. “When I get to know we’re doing another season, I am the happiest. But I don’t let go of that fear. I just surrender.”