Guwahati's Medha Aich is all set to make her debut in her upcoming Bollywood movie “Motichoor Chaknachoor” in which she'll be sharing the screen with renowned actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Athiya Shetty.
An alumnus of the prestigious National School of Drama (NSD), Medha has been into the performing arts ever since she was a child. Being a trained Bharat Natyam dancer, she claims to have been addicted to the stage since an early age. From dance to dance dramas and from dance drama to theatre, her art form has kept evolving over the years.
Medha, who hails from Guwahati, pursued her secondary education from Maharishi Vidya Mandir Silpukhuri, higher secondary from Gurukul Grammar Senior Secondary and graduation in Media Science from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata. She went on to pursue MA in Mass Communication and Journalism from Tezpur Central University.
“Theatre is an inseparable part of media and entertainment. And therefore I decided to study Mass Communication. My weakness for writing also added to this decision,” Medha expressed.
Her decision to start a career as an actor however was highly inspired by her dance gurus who were always impressed by her “Abhinaya” and “Bhava” (the acting part of classical dance) and her mother who always inspired her take up acting when she was young.
“My dance gurus, fellow dance mates and mother gave me the strength and courage to take up the decision to be an actor. This is the reason that I decided to apply for National School of Drama (NSD) to undergo a formal training in acting. Today, whatever little I know and can do as an actor is because of NSD,” Medha informed G Plus.
After completing her course in NSD, Medha got selected to work in the NSD Repertory Company as an artist where she worked for a year before leaving for Mumbai in 2017.
In the past one year, Medha has acted in a couple of ad films, an independent film and a number of theatre productions before finally getting called for a role in the Bollywood film “Motichoor Chaknachoor” in October 2018.
“After working in Mumbai for a year, I finally got a call from a casting company named F The Couch (FTC), which aims at working against casting couch in September end. FTC, owned by the renowned actor Sunil Shetty, was casting for Motichoor Chaknachoor. Soon after I auditioned for a role in the film, I got a call back from FTC that I had been selected,” Medha recalled, speaking to G Plus about getting a break in Bollywood.
Motichoor Chaknachoor, shot mostly in Bhopal, is a quirky wedding comedy that revolves around an odd couple. In the film, Medha plays the character of Gauri Tyagi, the younger daughter-in-law of the Tyagi family.
Speaking to G Plus about her character, Medha said, “Gauri represents all those women who are sincere but have never been educated enough. They have been eternally kept under the impression that it is okay to get domestically dominated by the elders of the family and a protocol to obey them quietly as a younger female member.”
While Motichoor Chaknachoor is Medha’s first commercial film, she had earlier acted in an Assamese film as a child actress when she was merely 7 years of age. The film, directed by Late Shiba Prasad Thakur, never got released due to production oriented problems, but certainly gave her an experience of acting in front of the camera.
Medha informed G Plus that she first met Nawazuddin Siddiqui during her first year in the NSD.
“I met him as a star senior from the institute and at that time, I couldn’t even imagine working with him as a co-star. I feel really fortune to have gotten the chance to work with him in my first film itself. There is so much to learn from an actor like him, especially when you have got the chance to see him work live,” said Medha.
Medha is presently rehearsing for a play “Ashadh Ka Ek Din,” to be staged in Kolkata on December 25. In this modern Indian play written by Mohan Rakesh and directed by Bapi Bose, the Guwahati girl is playing the lead character named Mallika. She also has a series of acting workshops lined up for the next month and the dubbing for Motichoor Chaknachoor is also to be done.
