Call her Dakshaben, and she will acknowledge you the way she would on being called Ketki Dave. The character she played years back, hasn’t left her yet. “Yes, Daksha was someone who made others laugh, and making others laugh is the toughest thing to do,” Ketki said. So after making people laugh, is Ketki ready to make people cry with a negative character portrayal? “What’s negativity? It all depends on how people perceive it.
I may be telling people ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do’, that can be positive for some and negative for some,” she explained. Point noted.
But playing the boss in a house full of women
... Aren’t we going overboard with women centric serials? “That’s because women are emotional, they have emotional outbursts which are rare in men. And we can portray a woman in different lights or emotions, say, as a mother, daughter, sister
... And why should we forget that our audience are mostly women?” she asks in turn.