Tillotama Shome is among the most prolific actors within the nation at present. Despite proving her mettle in a spread of roles, Tillotama Shome has shared in a brand new video that she has usually been subjected to being typecast into sure roles in Bollywood. The actress, who has performed a home employee with nice aplomb in a number of initiatives akin to Sir and Monsoon Wedding shared that she has usually solely been approached for a similar sort of character. In an interaction with Film Companion, she stated, “You know when I came back to acting after going away for a few years I realised it was such an uphill battle to be reimagined as anything but a domestic worker or someone who didn’t come from a place of privilege.”

“Initially one didn’t have the choice to say no”, Tillotama Shome shared, explaining that she had no choice however to just accept the roles. She additionally added “There was no other work and one had to survive. But after some time, when the bank balance was enough to pay the rent, I had to reckon with the anger I felt…I’m not rich, I’m not poor, I’m the upper middle class of India because of my education so if I’m not poor why am I getting to play only poor parts? I’m not rich either, so give me rich parts also na. Anyway, it’s fiction.”

Tillotama Shome shared her ideas through the promotional interview for her newest undertaking Lust Stories 2. The actress is seen alongside (Amruta Subhash) within the undertaking.

About the section directed by Konkona Sen Sharma within the anthology, NDTV’s Saibal Chatterjee wrote, “The Mirror, which examines female erogeneity in a new light, sends the film into a tangled, twisted terrain as it examines carnal pleasure and its frequently puzzling manifestations. Konkona Sen Sharma’s segment holds up a mirror to the inner worlds of two dissimilar women – successful and single professional Isheeta (Tillotama Shome) and her trusted all-purpose maid Seema (Amruta Subhash) – and probes the upshots of a piquant situation that arises when the former stumbles upon a startling scene when she returns from work one afternoon…Powered by two magnetic performances from Shome and Subhash, The Mirror maps the deepest impulses of the two women as they are drawn into a vicarious ‘relationship’ that stimulates them beyond their imagination and unlocks an ineffable degree of sexual frisson.”

In addition to Lust Stories 2, Tillotama Shome can be part of The Night Manager which is at present streaming on Disney+Hotstar. Lust Stories is obtainable for viewing on Netflix.