Making it in Bollywood - Joyeeta Dutta - Actor - #157

Joyeeta Dutta comes on the podcast to discuss Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, her process, a Suitable boy, socializing and more!  Joyeeta is an Indian actor who has worked in television and theatre.

In July 2020, Joyeeta made her screen debut in BBC One’s A Suitable Boy, a series directed by Mira Nair on a screenplay by Andrew Davies. Released on BBC One and Netflix, A Suitable Boy is an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s novel of the same name.

Prior to this Joyeeta was also a part of Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding Musical in 2019, a stage adaptation of her BAFTA - winning movie.

Joyeeta has trained in a 2-year acting program under the tutelage of director N.K. Sharma as part Act One, a New Delhi based theatre group. She has also briefly trained with actor Adil Hussain.

Before being bitten by the acting bug, Joyeeta worked at McKinsey and Co. after having graduated in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi.

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Chapters:

0:00 Turning it on for the camera

4:40 Getting into Acting: Joyeeta's Tamasha moment

12:30 Getting noticed in Bollywood

17:00 Meeting Shahrukh Khan

24:00 Dealing with Fame

26:00 The Acting Process

30:00 Commercial Cinema vs Parallel Cinema

35:30 Networking and Socializing

42:00 Shahrukh Khan obsession part 2

45:20 Rang De Basanti and Highway

51:00 Wokeness, Representation and being critical of the past

57:30 What are we watching?

1:02:30 Tabu obsession

1:09:30 What's your journey?

1:14:00 People we want to work with

1:18:00 Chilling