Mrunal Thakur: Challenging to play a cop in 'Gumraah'

Actor Mrunal Thakur says it was challenging to play a cop in her upcoming film Gumraah a role that she has tried to deal with responsibly The crime thriller is the Hindi remake of 2019 Tamil hit Thadam starring Arun Vijay and Vidya PradeepGumraah features Thakur as a cop while Aditya Roy Kapur will be seen in a double role The Jersey actor said since her role of a cop demanded her to sound firm she was unsure if she could pull it off primarily because of her soft voiceWhen you play a cop there is a responsibility For the first time I have played someone who is firm It is difficult to play a cop But the way my character is written is interesting There are a lot of shades there are a lot of ups and downs It was challenging Thakur told reporters here at the trailer launch of the filmThere were times when I would go to Vardhan Ketkar director and tell him I dont think I can do it and he would say you got this And sometimes my voice is sweet that we had to be firm she added The actor said she also took notes from her family members who have been police officers to flesh out her character properly My family belongs to police department and it was nice to go back to them take some anecdotes listen to their stories and implement in my character she added Thakur who garnered wide critical acclaim for her performance in Love Sonia and Sita Ramam said she is grateful to writers for penning powerful roles for female actors and hopes this trend continuesThere are strong women personalities out here who do not get the recognition It feels good to be in the centre of the poster in Gumraah who wouldnt want to Its about time We need to change the definition of how Indian actresses were treated rolewise and not the other way It is lovely to get such powerful roles and I hope there are many more to come she addedSpeaking of comparisons with Tabu and Rani Mukerji who have played cop roles in two different films Drishyam and Mardaani respectively Thakur said she looks up to both the actors and hopes she has done justice to her role in GumraahWatch Gumraah Trailer Mrunal Thakur On Being Compared To Tabu and Rani Mukerji Aditya Roy KapoorI look up to Tabu maam and she is the goddess I worship One of the reasons why I want to do Gumraah is when I heard the story I could picture only Tabu maam This is something I want to explore this space and this genre I have never been part of a thriller movie and this is a film where you will sit at the edge of the seat your mind will be at play I am happy they are comparing me to Tabu and Rani maam I hope I do justice she saidThe film follows the story of a murder investigation by the police who find two lookalike suspects Aditya claiming to not know each other For Kapur the challenge was to make the two characters look different He also credited writers Aseem Arora and Ketkar for making his job easy as an actor because they had written it as two different characters What was interesting was the character needed to feel very different and we couldnt play with the look and you will realize it when you see the film So we had to find a way to make them speak differently I did some diction classes to bring about the difference in the way they speak he saidAlso Read Mrunal Thakur drops a crying photo on her Insta story says Its okay to be naive and vulnerableAditya said Gumraah pushed him to tap into a space as an actor that he had not explored in his 15yearlong career He also said even though two of his projects Malang and webshow The Night Manager have been successful thrillers he was excited to explore the genre again with GumraahWhen you do a film that has worked in that space like Malang came out and this The Night Manager was in that space then you want to do more of it Having said that you dont want to keep repeating yourself What I found with this Gumrah was that the role was exciting It was an opportunity to push myself to do something I had not done before So it all added to that he said Produced by Bhushan Kumars TSeries and Murad Khetanis Cine1 Studios Gumraah will release theatrically on April 7This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever