Bollywood actor Nushrat Bharucha said that there is no conscious effort to switch over from roles she may have played before by taking up characters that are different.
She rose to fame with her roles in the 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' franchise and 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety'. Moving away from glamorous avatars, she has also portrayed de-glam roles in 'Chhalaang' and 'Ajeeb Daastaans'.
"There is no conscious choice or effort to switch over from old roles. Honestly, I know I have been doing a certain kind of film but I do not look at them that way. I take them as different characters and I have to do the same kind of hard work to make them different from the films before, which is even more challenging because the genre and the premise are the same but your thinking is to make it different," she said.
The segment in 'Ajeeb Daastaans' featuring Nushrratt is titled 'Khilauna' and it co-stars Abhishek Banerjee and child star Inayat Verma. 'Khilauna' is directed by Raj Mehta, in which she plays a househelp.
"Doing something different in a similar kind of thing is difficult. You do not have to do it but as an actor, you think let us do something new like the diction in 'Chhalaang' was interesting. So, I learned the diction just to add more realism to the character. I did the same in 'Khilauna'," Nushrat added.
'Ajeeb Daastaans' has four segments, with the other stories directed by Shashank Khaitan, Neeraj Ghaywan and Kayoze Irani. The anthology also stars Fatima Sana Shaikh, Jaideep Ahlawat, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shefali Shah, Manav Kaul and Tota Roy Chowdhary.