I am greedy for interesting roles: Swastika Mukherjee

Actress Swastika Mukherjee says she will play the complex character of a single working mother of a differently abled child in the upcoming Bengali film 'Kia and Cosmos'.

Swastika, who describes herself as a 'greedy actress' in search of intriguing roles, told PTI that "my status as a single mom perhaps helped me when I was relating to the script."
On 'Kia And Cosmos', she said, "In my opinion it is one of the very few films which has seriously delved into the issue of autism."
Describing it as an important step to take up the issue of autism in the film, Mukherjee said, "Ritwika Pal essays the role of a special child in the film and I play her mother."
Showering compliments on Ritwika, Mukherjee, who enacted the role of Kiya's mother Diya Chatterjee, said "she had entered into the zone of a special child two-three months before shooting began and I sometimes used to forget she is not Kiya ... "
"I even used to tell her to behave normally when the camera was not rolling."
Recalling that director Sudipto Roy did not get much financial help at the initial stage of shooting and had to take recourse to 'crowdfunding' before getting a good producer as the shooting progressed, Mukherjee said, "I always back young directors if the subject sounds interesting."
Ritwika said, "The scenes between me and Swastika Ma'm had lots of emotional quotient. There was serious communication between two souls and hence the scenes took so much time. Her energy level was infectious."
'Kia and Cosmos' will be release on March 29