How Music And Perfumes Help Shweta Tripathi-Sharma To Get In The Skin Of Her Character

Actress Shweta Tripathi Sharma who was most recently seen in Netflix’s ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhen’ explains why she wants to understand the emotional journey of her onscreen characters to be able to make them seem more relatable to the audience.

Samarth Goyal

Updated on: 2 February 2022 7:35 am

Shweta Tripathi-Sharma was recently seen in the Netflix series 'Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen'.

With a variety of roles in TV, films and now OTT platforms, in a career spanning a little more than a decade, one would think Shweta Tripathi Sharma would have a checklist, that would help her choose her next project.

“I am still a gut driven person. What I mean is, when I read the script, I want to know if I ca do justice to the role, and if I am getting interested while reading the script myself,” says Tripathi.

Be it her character in the recently released dark-comedy/thriller web series ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhen’, or Golu Gupta from the crime web series ‘Mirzapur’ or Shaloo from the National Award-winning film ‘Masaan’, it is the emotional journey of the character that “excites” the 36-year-old actress the most, who has a rather unique approach to get into the skin of her characters.

“If I understand the emotional journey of my character, then everything falls into place, automatically. For instance, for Shikha, her priority is love. Yes, it takes her into a mess, but just like hope, love is a very strong and potent emotion, which in her case is her driving force. Then I understood,” she says.

For her music and fragrance are two things, she sort of uses to define her characters in different projects.

"Music is magic. Every character of mine has a very different playlist. With fragrance, some characters are fruity, floral, fresh, some are woody. Like Shikha is very delicate, very fragile, her fragrance is similar to that of a flower’s smell. Golu, on the other hand has a strong fragrance, and that was in the second season. It was something else in the first season. In ‘Masaan’ for Shaloo I associated Shaloo’s character to the fragrance of Mogra, because I needed a very desi, sweet and soft fragrance for her,” adds Sharma.

They also help, Shweta Tripathi-Sharma in adding more layers to her character, which becomes important, specially in cases of web series, which go on for few seasons. “When I had shot the first season of ‘Mirzapur’, I was a different person then. I am a different person now. So that’s when the fragrance, and especially the playlist come in handy, because they help me get back into the character. I keep on adding and subtracting from the playlist constantly,” she signs off.