Amrita Rao takes her roles very seriously. So, when the actress was required to play the character of Kamla — a simple village potter woman — in her forthcoming film, Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur, Amrita not only learnt pottery to get under her character’s skin, but also got a new complexion for her skin, albeit a much darker one. “Yes, in Welcome to Sajjanpur, I will be seen looking much darker than I really am, almost three shades darker than my original complexion,” Amrita told us. “Being a potter, my character needed to have a very sun-tanned look. So, although my make-up is minimalistic, I have donned make-up to look dusky,” added the fair maiden of Bollywood. In fact, Benegal, known to be a stickler for authenticity, personally supervised Amrita’s make-up.And that’s not all, Amrita was even required to practise pottery in the clothes she wears in the movie to give the clothes a used look. “We wanted the clothes to have a used feel and also I wanted to look comfortable and at ease in them, considering we’re not really used to wearing a ghagra-choli everyday. So I would practise pottery in them everyday and they were washed several times before the shooting. The whole process of getting into this character has been very challenging and interesting. I’ve had to learn pottery, learn a new language and get comfortable in moving around in a ghagra,” said Amrita, admitting to being really excited about playing a dusky village belle for the first time. From the feisty Sanjana in Main Hoon Na to the demure bride-to-be Poonam in Vivaah and from the hottie in Shortkut to a dusky village belle, Amrita sure knows to pack in a surprise in each film.
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