Cinema has great roles for women: Karisma Kapoor

Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor claims that playing a cop in the upcoming drama series Brown, the only Indian programme on the Berlin Series Market Selects platform, required her to step outside of her comfort zone.

Despite having portrayed a number of roles during her career, Karisma Kapoor, who dominated Hindi film in the 1990s and 2000s with hits like Raja Hindustani, Dil To Pagal Hai, Raja Babu, Coolie No 1 and Judwa, said Brown was very different from her previous on-screen personas. 

“We are always constantly evolving. Now, with OTT there is a scope to portray different facets of a character. I was out of my comfort zone with this show, there are certain things that I am doing in the show, which I don’t do in real life, so I had to stretch myself. It was interesting for me to do that,” Kapoor told PTI in an interview.

She further added, “Every generation in cinema has great roles for women. And we are constantly evolving. I am also lucky to have been part of films like Zubeidaa and Fiza. I wish there would be more but that’s the way it is. Maybe OTT gives more space for the strong female protagonist today,”

Brown revolves around Rita Brown, an alcoholic cop, who forms an unlikely alliance with a widower with survivor’s guilt to solve the murder of a young girl.