A middle class girl faces the world of hardship: Paoli

Portraying a today's girl running a modest PCO-cum-gift shop in a typical Kolkata 'para' in Hercules, the 'Ankur Arora Murder Case' actor Paoli Dam says she again gets to play a 'woman of substance' in the upcoming film, who is so unlike Haro-Koilas,the simpleton neighbor who never musters the courage to approach her.
"All of us have seen such a girl, from middle class background, trying to make her mark in the world, A fighter, a person with dignity, practical about the circumstances around. She is rough in the exterior but having a soft mind within which tends to love the miserably failed Haro-Koilas aka Haru, portrayed by Parambrata Chatterjee, but never gets to tell her. Can we ever communicate all that we wish to everybody we come across in this life," Paoli told PTI over phone.

"In a way she has references of me, of every today's woman for that matter, as much as the other two important characters Harokoilas and para tough 'Mosh' essayed by Saswata Chatterjee, all of whom bear familiar traits. People we see in the city and suburbs and elsewhere.
"It is an interesting collage of today's society where I again get to portray a not so typecast role. I always go for characters which are not conventional cardboard types, if you see my roles, even the recent ones from Sada Canvas to upcoming Family Album," Paoli said.
"I have seen such personalities like Haro, who can be bullied and teased and they take it with equanimity. We pity them but we never come to their aid. We also derive some pleasure when we see them being taunted, which we dub as harmless bullying," Parambrata said.

"It is so unlike me, but when you portray a role you don't think what you are. You become that character, and it is interesting for the shift between the real you and reel you in between shots and after pack-up," Parambrata said.
"And it works and helps when you share screen with actors like Paoli Dam and Apuda (Saswata Chaterjee. And when directors like Abhijit Guha-Sudeshna Roy are around you feel within the comfort zone of acting," the actor-director, having a string of films from Jio Kaka, Hawa Bodol to upcoming Lorai, said.