Being a Bengali I feel blessed to play Mahakali: Ishita Ganguly

Actress Ishita Ganguly, who plays the role Kali Maa in the show '

Jag Janani Maa Vaishno Devi

', was quite excited when she visited Lucknow and Kanpur for the promotion of the serial. "This is my third visit to the city and I find Kanpur quite similar to Kolkata. Being a Bengali I have always been in love with good food. While in Mumbai I came to know that Kanpur’s litti chokha is very popular. Jaise hi maine litti chokha khaya mazaa aa gaya. Chokha was super spicy and sattu stuffed litti were really mind blowing. Main kuchh litti chokha ki pictures click karna chahti thi par woh mujhe itni tempting lagi ki main pictures click karna bhool hi gayi aur sab khaa gayi."

Ishita Ganguly (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)
Taking out time from her busy schedule Ishita also went to Phool Bagh in Kanpur. "The architecture of Kanpur is quite similar to Kolkata. I really liked the clean and green Phool Bagh park, which was just in front of Gandhi Bhawan. The architecture of Gandhi Bhawan was also very impressive. Last time I also saw the building of Lal Imli mill. The British style construction of this building reminded me of building that was constructed during British era in Kolkata," she says.
Telling us about her Lucknow visit she said, "I have been to Lucknow earlier too and then I went to Hazratganj. Being a Bengali I love non-vegetarian food and so I had the Tunday kebabs in Lucknow."
Playing Goddess Kali in the show, Ishita says it is a difficult task to play this character. "Playing goddess Kali is really challenging. However, being a Bengali I feel blessed to play Mahakali. It takes more than two hours everyday for me to get ready for the character, since the get up is such. Also, before every shot, out of all the other characters, I need minimum of 15 minutes for the touch up for the black colour that’s applied on my whole body. Thankfully the makers have used organic colours, so my skin in not harmed in any way," she says.