Ananya Panday is ready to make her internet sequence debut with Name Me Bae, a undertaking that she sees as a chance to problem the general public’s notion of her. Recognized for her roles in light-hearted movies like Scholar of the Yr 2, the actor is decided to interrupt out of the field that the business and viewers have positioned her in. Ananya believes that her newest enterprise will enable her to showcase a unique aspect of her performing skills.
In Name Me Bae, Ananya performs Bae, a privileged younger lady from New Delhi who’s disowned by her household. Directed by Collin D’Cunha and created by Ishita Moitra, the eight-episode sequence will likely be obtainable on Prime Video beginning September 6. Ananya sees this position as a “dream position” that provides her an opportunity to discover a personality with depth and complexity.
Panday spoke candidly in regards to the challenges of coping with the business’s and viewers’s perceptions. “While you begin with a sure sort of movie, folks put you in a field and anticipate the identical factor from you,” she mentioned. “So, I’m preventing the notion of what the viewers thinks of me and the sort of work you get throughout the business. When one thing of yours does nicely, you get the identical presents, and it’s as much as us as actors if we have now that place the place we will say no.”
She emphasised the significance of constructing considerate decisions in her profession. “Typically saying no is extra essential than sure as a result of that defines you as an actor and an individual. You might be scared that, ‘Oh, that is such an enormous alternative, what if I say no to this.’ However then, in the long run, it does nicely as a result of you aren’t feeding right into a stereotype.”
Panday described her character, Bae, as somebody who goes on a “riches to rags” journey. When she first learn the script, she was instantly drawn to the position. “They despatched me eight episodes in a go, and after I learn it, I felt, ‘I may die to be a part of this.’ As a personality, there’s a lot to do, a lot to chew on. There are such a lot of layers to the character.”
The present guarantees to take the viewers on a journey with Bae, one that’s gentle, enjoyable, and completely happy but additionally carries a big message by the top. “There’s a full journey, and the viewers goes by every part along with her. That was very thrilling,” Ananya mentioned.
Transitioning from movies to an internet sequence was a brand new expertise for Ananya. She shared that it took a while to regulate to the tone of Name Me Bae, particularly after engaged on extra severe initiatives like Vikramaditya Motwane’s CTRL and Kho Gaye Hum Kahan. “It was like a breath of recent air, all of us loved approaching units, having enjoyable, and taking part in with one another,” she mentioned.
Ananya admitted that she needed to shift her performing type for the brand new undertaking. “On the primary day, I used to be being very delicate, I used to be doing inner performing, and Colin was like, ‘This won’t work right here, it is advisable to put the vitality up.’ It took us a number of days to seek out our rhythm, after which all of us discovered the tone collectively.”
Name Me Bae marks Panday’s first enterprise into the OTT area, a format that she finds thrilling. “This zone (OTT) excites me as a result of every part we see is slightly darkish and heavy, and I miss consuming and binge-watching one thing with my buddies. I wish to carry gentle to folks in these darkish instances (by the present),” she mentioned.
Ananya appreciated the chance to delve deeper into her character within the sequence format. “Regardless that once you do a movie, you continue to have the identical quantity of labor and backstories, you don’t have that a lot display screen time to point out the entire aspects. A number of the stuff will get misplaced in subtlety and context. However with the present, there was a lot that I may do.”
Regardless of the viewers’s notion, Panday feels that she has extra variations than similarities along with her character Bae. “Individuals have that notion, however the extra you get to know me, folks notice that I’m not like that… The character that’s closest to me is Aahana from Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, I may really feel she is similar to how I’m. However with Bae, I’ve not lived the best way she has,” she defined.
Name Me Bae additionally incorporates a stellar forged, together with Vir Das, Gurfateh Pirzada, Varun Sood, and Mini Mathur. The sequence is government produced by Dharmatic Leisure’s Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, and Somen Mishra.
