Haven't got anything super exciting in commercial space, says Sayani Gupta

Sayani Gupta believes she has successfully straddled between mainstream and independent cinema but the actor says she is currently not picking any commercial movie due to paucity of time.

The actor said she chooses meaty roles in independent films over less exciting mainstream offers.

"I have done 'Margarita with a Straw', 'Parched' with 'Jagga Jasoos', 'Jolly LLB 2', 'Baar Baar Dekho'. I have been able to balance. But in the last one and a half year, I did not have a single day off. I was doing 'Four More Shots', I did a British series and then I did two films. I had no time. You need to have time to say yes. I don't have the dates.

"I did 'Article 15' because one of my films got cancelled. In the commercial space in the last year, I haven't got anything that is super exciting for me to do. I have said no to three big films that are yet to be released because the roles were not meaty," Sayani told PTI in an interview here.

After "Mulk", Anubhav Sinha had offered Sayani a film - a farcical comedy, but things did not work out and then "Article 15" happened.

"He liked my work in 'Jolly LLB 2' and since then we both have been wanting to work with each other for a while. Things were not working. Even this time when 'Article 15' came up I had a Bengali film already in my hand. But I got to know that the Bengali movie is not happening and my dates just freed up."
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