“I own it and love it,” says actress Aditi Rao Hydari, who feels lucky to be known as the face of period dramas but also enjoys playing the brat and is dying to do a “fabulous mystery thriller”.
Hydari’s latest is Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s pre-Partition era series “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar”. Her tryst with period dramas goes back to Bhansali’s 2018 magnum opus “Padmaavat”, in which she played the role of Alauddin Khilji’s wife Mehrunissa. Since then, the actor has also starred in period drama shows such as “Taj: Divided by Blood” and “Jubilee”.
While she is happy to be associated with projects belonging to another space and time, she said she doesn’t want to limit herself to one genre.
