Shedding the royal and vibrant traditional attire
that once defined Nilambari’s strength and power in &TV’s Main Bhi
Ardhangini, Deepshikha Nagpal is all set to essay a new powerful character
after the show moves into a supernatural narrative. The royal, smart yet sly
Nilambari will now be the powerful and overambitious Mahamaya, an evil woman
who has inhibited supernatural powers from Chitra (Anjali Priya) and is now out
to control the entire world with these powers.
With a keen interest in styling and designing and
taking inspiration from Khaleesi from Game of Thrones, Deepshika has styled her
look in all-black sultry attire to bring alive her character. Talking about it,
Deepshika said “Although Khaleesi has quite a westernized look to her
character, I decided to give a slight indo-western appeal to my look.
Considering Mahamaya has a dark and evil nature, I felt black would best
represent this side keeping in mind the glamour quotient of the character. The
accessories were handpicked to match the shades of the dress and although I am
not a fan of dark nail colours, I decided to wear blue to match the personality
of my character. My interest in styling and designing came about after
assisting in Nilambari’s looks and thus decided to take up this character as a
challenge.”
Where once Nilambari depicted grace and elegance
in her appearance, Mahamaya brings forth power and control in her attitude.
Deepshikha’s new character makes a rather sizzling entry into the show.
Delivering a carefree extempore performance, the actress made her entry to the
popular sizzling track, Dilbar Dilbar that was choreographed by the actress
herself. Speaking about the same, Deepshikha said, “Despite shooting this
sequence at 3 am in the night after a long working day, I was
high on energy and quite excited to shoot this sequence. It was something
different and interesting that had come my way in this show. I didn’t want the
performance to look choreographed or restricted to certain movements. Mahamaya
is one to control and that had to be represented in her stance and style. I
took inspiration from Ranveer Singh’s performance in Binte Dil to depict the
same flow and movement in my dance. I personally love this track a lot and
performing on it, in a style comfortable to me was an exciting experience.”
