Acting course made me more confident, says Daksha Nagarkar

Daksha Nagarkar has almost completed shooting for the talkie part of her role in Ravanasura. She says the film is a modern spin on the Indian epic, with several fictional elements added to the story.

“Working for the film has been a great experience! I can’t talk about my role but it is in complete contrast to what I have played earlier,” says Daksha.

She recently enrolled in a ‘performing arts’ course in Bulgaria while she was on a private visit there. “I felt an actor can evolve if they constantly work or enrol in acting courses. I wanted to do an acting course at the renowned Studio 24 in Los Angeles. However, I learnt that one of the trainers at the institute, Vascos, had moved to Bulgaria. Since I had to stay in Bulgaria for a few months, I thought it was a great opportunity to enrol in an acting course,” says Daksha.

The three-month workshop included key aspects of acting such as emotions, screenwriting, how to break a scene and a character, speech and diction, imagination and auditioning techniques. Daksha shares that she became more confident and a better actor after the course. “Earlier, if I had to enact an emotional scene, I would tap a sad memory, but during my assignments (simulations) I learnt other techniques of acting,” she smiles.

She says the course gave her a fresh and broader perspective of acting. “It made me shed my inhibitions, making me more open and expressive,” she shares.