October 3, 2017
"The Viral Fever" actor Sumeet Vyas, who is making his big
screen debut with "Ribbon" opposite Kalki Koechlin, hails his co-star as a
through professional.
"I learned a lot from Kalki Koechlin. It was a
really interesting experience, Kalki is a thorough professional and I really
respect that and she is a really popular star and an actor, but you don't feel
that when you're working with her," said Sumeet at the film's trailer launch on
Tuesday.
Filmmaker Rakhee's directorial Ribbon stars Sumeet and Kalki and
is the love story of a young couple, who, amidst their flourishing careers,
decide to have a baby.
About his performance in the content-driven drama,
Sumeet said: "People want the real stuff, the real story; they enjoy that kind
of performance. During the 1990s, people liked over-the-top kind of performance,
but today, people enjoy very realistic performance, so as an audience we are
graduating towards that kind of content."
Kalki, who plays the role of a
career-oriented girl facing much criticism and bias on workplace due to her
pregnancy and later motherhood, says she researched so much about pregnancy and
motherhood that now she is scared of it.
"It is challenging, but you
know, I have not been a mother in real life, so obviously the whole thing from
pregnancy to childbirth, and then having a baby and raising it, I did a lot of
research on it; I found so many details about pregnancy, now I am really
terrified of birth... but it is also beautiful," she said.
About working
with debut director Rakhee, actress Kalki hailed the filmmaker and the script,
which ushered her into working in "Ribbon".
"Two things worked for me,
first the script was excellent. It was very relatable, a story like this could
have happened with anyone. And the second thing, I had seen the documentary by
Rakhee, she has made a documentary on surrogacy and surrogate mothers, her
choices as a filmmaker, the way she shoots is very realistic and it matches the
script a lot, so those were the reasons I wanted to do 'Ribbon'," she addedi.
"Ribbon" has been produced by Prakash Mondal and Swathi Mondal of Red Cart
Films and is slated to release across India on November 3.