Spoilers ahead about ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare’.
One of the reasons Konkona Sensharma was drawn to playing Dolly in Alankrita Shrivastava’s Netflix Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare was that she had never played such a “morally ambiguous and transgressive character before”, the 40-year-old actor told Scroll.in.
In the September 18 release, Sensharma is Radha, nicknamed Dolly. She initially comes across as a model mother-wife-employee, until it is revealed how imperfect her facade is. She shares a warm but complex relationship with her cousin Kaajal aka Kitty (Bhumi Pednekar), who is on her own trajectory of self-awareness.
“The usual kind of roles I had always played are morally upright and strong women,” Sensharma observed. “But women are not always that sanitised in real life. They may not always act responsibly or make the right life decisions….