Actress and model from Pasighat, Chum Darang is making headlines with her Bollywood debut with Junglee Productions’ Badhaai Do says Bollywood was never in her plans. She says that although she wanted to act, she was too shy to turn it into a career as she thought people would laugh about it.

Talking about being offered ‘cliche’ roles and the ordeal she faced as an actor from the Northeast, Chum said that she was offered roles of spa employees, a stereotypical move in the Bollywood industry. 

Darang also reveals about the challenges she faced as an actor from Arunachal Pradesh. 

“Not just in movies, but in day-to-day life as well, things are not easy. When I was called for my audition for Badhaai Do, and this was in March 2020, on my way to the venue, two boys shouted ‘corona’ at me, and I started crying. For my audition, I had to do a scene that required me to shout, and I could actually do it really well because of that incident.”

Chum Darang is seen playing Bhumi Pednekar’s love interest in ‘Badhaai Do’. She says she had “no inhibitions” about playing the role of an LGBTQ+ character in the film.

“The character that I am playing, she is such a fun girl and the tag of playing Bhumi’s love interest did not really bother me. It was a challenge to play a role like that but I had no inhibitions. I listened to my director and understood what the team wanted. And I would like to believe that I completed this challenge well,” she added.

Darang said that sharing the screen with actors like Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar has been a learning experience. “They both are so down-to-earth and work really hard. I know they are experienced; they know so much, but during the shoot, they sat down, listened to the director and worked accordingly. I learnt to be hard-working and grounded from them. The respect they have for other actors on set was another thing that I learnt from them,” she said.

The actress also said that her friends and family back home are equally thrilled about the film. “We don’t have theatres in my hometown, so they are planning to go to Assam and will be travelling for three hours to see me on the big screen,” she said.

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