The actor joins director Alankrita Srivastava to talk about exploring sisterhood and sensuality in their new show, Bombay Begums
Years ago, director Alankrita Srivastava’s mother, an IIM (Ahmedabad) graduate, told her that there were only four women in her batch and none of them pursued a ‘full-fledged corporate career’. This got the 41-year-old thinking about women and ambition. Somewhere along the way, this crystallised into an idea that is now Netflix India’s latest offering, Bombay Begums. Set in the high stakes world of banking and finance, the story follows Rani (Pooja Bhatt), Fatima (Shahana Goswami), Ayesha (Plabita Borthakur), Lily (Amruta Subhash) and Shai (Aadhya Anand), whose circumstances are different but whose lives are interconnected.
As in her earlier work, Srivastava has trained her lens to examine the ‘complex inner lives of women’. “Ever since the economy opened up in India there were many more women in the corporate workforce, but they have…
