Bad Cop actor Harleen Sethi talks about the challenges of breaking stereotypes and how she is navigating her career being aware of ‘industry realities’.
When makers of the Disney Plus Hotstar show Bad Cop knocked the doors of actor Harleen Sethi with a potential casting to play a young mother, her initial thought was ‘not again‘. Sethi, who had just last year earned acclaim for her act as a young mother battling an unhappy marriage and wanting to break free in Kohrra, felt getting trapped in a stereotype that the industry is infamous for.
“So that was the first question, that am I being put in a box of a particular age group on screen? One never wants to get slotted like that. I even brought this up with Anurag and Aaradhana (the producer) and they said this fear is true that stereotyping happens a lot in Bollywood but my director Aditya Datt and Anurag said it’s changing and that’s no more the case.
Produced by Fremantle India and directed by Aditya Datt, the Rensil D’Silva penned series is a reimagination of the original German drama of the same name. Before she read the script of all the eight episodes of Bad Cop, Hareleen said the “initial fear” was there, despite OTT breaking the age stereotype.
