Actress Neha Sargam is all set to essay the role of Yashoda in the upcoming show ‘Yashomati Maiyaa Ke Nandlala’. The actress recently visited Vrindavan and Mathura to seek the blessings of Lord Krishna for her show.
During a recent interview with BT, Neha talked about essaying the role of Yashoda and how she is portraying the character in a different way. She shared, “Till now I have seen actors playing Yashoda as a very quintessential mother who’s very positive, very docile, and polite. I am not playing that mother. I am very loud. She is very out-front and never hesitates in expressing herself.”
On being asked if she relates to the character, she replied, “I completely relate to my character and my director keeps saying this. When I am stuck at some point and ask him how to do it, my director says, ‘My Yashoda is you, so do the way you want, the director has supported me and I got the freedom to deliver dialogue in a way I want to and here I got an opportunity to explore my character and be myself.”
Neha is currently busy with the third season of ‘Mirzapur’. The actress believes that the viewers connect with OTT more as it has more relatable. She also maintained that TV also has such shows which are more relatable and hence successful.
“I have a feeling the audience shifted to OTT why? Because it is relatable. People are crass sometimes. Without using abusive language or cuss words they can’t talk. And that is all the reasons ‘Mirzapur’ was liked by the audience. They get to see characters with whom they can connect well or they look like those we often meet or interact with on a day-to-day basis,” she said.
When asked why today’s generation would watch and connect with mythological shows like this, Neha replied, “I can’t change the content. I can’t change the treatment of such shows which are based on the incarnation of different avatars or for instance Lord Krishna. For this audience to have some likeability for such shows. But otherwise, those audiences who want to watch something which is relatable, in that I am doing my bit that I’m making it relatable in terms of if they watch me playing the mother, they will say, ‘she looks like today’s mother’. So, hopefully, those audiences who go to OTT platforms to watch something that is relatable, maybe they’ll have a likability factor for this show and for me as well.”
When asked about the most challenging part of her role in this show, Neha replied, “To get into the skin of this character, I have to speak Braj language smoothly and that was not easy. But when my hairdresser told me he wants to learn this language from me, I felt my purpose was solved.”
For the unversed, Neha made her debut on TV with Indian Idol 4. She later moved towards acting, doing several TV shows including ‘Chand Chupa Badal Mein’, ‘Ramayan: Sabke Jeevan Ka Aadhar’, ‘Yeh Hai Aashiqui’ and OTT shows. “I always wanted to be a singer. When I was studying advertising and marketing, I thought maybe I’ll join a good advertising agency and will continue my singing. But things changed and went sideways. Now acting took the forefront. But I am still pursuing singing and have been a part of musical play, ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ as an actor and singer. I have my friend in the industry like Sonu Nigam who keeps telling me that, ‘Neha never leaves singing, you sing really well. So, I will keep doing it whenever I get time.”
Produced by Contiloe Pictures, Yashomati Maiyaa Ke Nandlala features Neha as Yashoda, Rahul Sharma as Nand Maharaj, Ram Yashvardhan as Kans, Romiit Raaj as Lord Vasudev, and Hitanshu Jinsi as Lord Vishnu.