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Talk nerdy to me! Shreya Dhanwanthary on the roles of her dreams

Oct 13, 2023 05:18 AM IST

Shreya Dhanwanthary has played real-life heroines and make-believe molls. But underneath it all, she’s just a geek, hoping to inherit the Earth

Good things happen when Shreya Dhanwanthary gazes into the distance. In Scam 1992 (2020), her breakout role, in which she plays real-life business journalist Sucheta Dalal, that gaze means she’s uncovering Harshad Mehta’s epic stock-market fraud. In her latest Netflix series, Guns & Gulaabs, in which she plays the enigmatic femme fatale Yamini, her gaze harks back to a mysterious past shared between her and the not-quite-good cop Arjun.

Shreya Dhanwanthary says that she’s still a geek at heart. (Photographer: Abhishek Verma; Hair & make-up: Ankita Manwani)
Shreya Dhanwanthary says that she’s still a geek at heart. (Photographer: Abhishek Verma; Hair & make-up: Ankita Manwani)
Shreya Dhanwanthary’s breakout role was in Scam 1992 (2020), in which she plays real-life journalist Sucheta Dalal. (Photographer: Nikhil Shenoy; Make up: Omkar Vardam; Hair: Swapnil)
Shreya Dhanwanthary’s breakout role was in Scam 1992 (2020), in which she plays real-life journalist Sucheta Dalal. (Photographer: Nikhil Shenoy; Make up: Omkar Vardam; Hair: Swapnil)
Dhanwanthary says she would have loved to have been on the cast of Casablanca.
Dhanwanthary says she would have loved to have been on the cast of Casablanca.
Pyaasa is another film Dhanwanthary wishes she could have been a part of.
Pyaasa is another film Dhanwanthary wishes she could have been a part of.
Dhanwanthary misses the cartoons from the ’90s. “Top Cat, SWAT Kats, Tom and Jerry, Dexter, (above) Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet, Looney Toons—all of them were so good!”
Dhanwanthary misses the cartoons from the ’90s. “Top Cat, SWAT Kats, Tom and Jerry, Dexter, (above) Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet, Looney Toons—all of them were so good!”
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