Udgharsha made Tanya Hope resilient

Challenging is the word that Tanya Hope uses to describe her experience of working on

Udgharsha

— the first Kannada film she shot for. “The film taught me to grit my teeth and just do my job, no matter how, without any complaints. Director Sunil Kumar Desai made me like that; he made me resilient,” says Tanya. How, we ask? “Udgharsha is high on action, and there was one scene in which I had to jump off a tree, swing on a vine and kick someone on the back. I took half a day to can that shot because it was extremely difficult. I remember that I used to return home from the shoot all bruised and battered, and felt that I couldn’t get up the next day. But I had to put my body through that to make my character look genuine onscreen,” she says.

Tanya plays Karishma in Udgharsha, who gets involved in a murder. “Karishma is someone who minds her own business, but gets caught in the web of a murder. I play someone who helps Thakur Anoop Singh’s character, Aditya, through the whole film to solve the murder,” she says.

While Tanya has many memories of the shoot of the film, her most prominent ones involve Sunil. “It was challenging working with him, because he really knows what he wants and he won’t accept anything else. He is very hardworking; from morning till the end of the shoot he doesn’t sit down, forgets to eat and drink water. When I wasn’t able to swing from the vine properly, he got ready to climb the tree to show me how. We had to somehow convince him to not do that. That’s how passionate he is. He is the reason I signed the movie,” says Tanya, signing off.