“Of course I’d want shows like these to be adapted in India too,” she hopes.
In the meantime, she is hooked to the cult TV show Sherlock. “I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories,” she adds. “When I’m abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway,” says the actor, who has been penning “vain poetic stuff” for long. She prefers to go with the flow because “nothing so far has happened according to my grand plans.” In her free time she wants to pursue writing, and catch up on American sitcoms and Broadway shows. I’m also liberal, a political enthusiast, a bookworm, and the least bit ambitious to pull off a soap drama queen act,” she says. Maybe I will knock the same theory in my kids’ heads too.
“Deep down I’m a small-town girl who has it drilled in her DNA to grow up, marry, have kids, settle down. A Mass Communication passout from the Jamia Milia Islamia, in Delhi, and a kathak dancer, she laughs how sometimes she finds herself like a fish out of the water - “an ugly duckling” in the world of television. Growing up in a middle class-family in Cooch Behar, a small town in West Bengal, Roy’s life was filled with folklore, mythology, politics and endless supply of books. She was very human, and her love with Mahadev was amazing, for I consider it the first love story of the Universe,” she says.
“She is an iron princess and an innocent girl at the same time. For her own part, to get into the role of Sati, Roy had to go through at least eight look tests to get it right.