Mangal Lakshmi’s Naman Shaw who plays Adit in the show spoke exclusively to Downtown Mirror Weekly about his character in the show, trolling by fans and more.
Colors’ Mangal Lakshmi has been enjoying great ratings on the BARC charts. The show is in the Top 3 most viewed shows. Downtown Mirror Weekly got in touch with Naman Shaw who plays the character of Adit in the show and the talented actor spoke at length about getting a lot of scope to perform in the show as an actor, online trolling and more.
On playing a grey character, Naman Shaw said, “In the past, I’ve only played positive roles. I don’t think I would’ve gotten a show as good as this. Yes, it is a grey character, but, I have experienced an immense rise in my confidence level after playing this character. There’s a lot of variation in this character which an actor genuinely craves for.
My character Adit is a good son, a good father, but he is not that good a husband. Of course, the grey character does get trolled, however, I take trolling for my character as medals. The more people hate me, the more I feel that I’m able to deliver the character to the best of my capacities.”
The Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi actor further added, “I have done many positive characters. You don’t get a lot of scope of performances doing that. Here, I get to play both positive as well as negative characters. As an actor, there’s nothing more that you ask for. As an actor, I have gotten a lot of hold. I think this is my best role that I’ve taken up so far as I wasn’t able to showcase this amount of variations in other shows that I’ve done.”
Naman Shaw added, “Everyday there’s a new twist and shade that I can play. With Amma I’m quite positive, with my daughter too, it is only with Mangal that I’m negative. As far as Saumya is concerned, I am sometimes positive and some days negative with her (laughs).
This is what an actor wants. Yes, trolling does happen, but I don’t get bothered by it. As long as people are loving the show, I am fine with it. My only focus is to deliver the best I can for the character that I have been trusted with by the producers.”
