Television actress Mansi Srivastava has returned to the small screen with Lakshmi Niwas, taking on a positive role after portraying several negative characters in recent years. Describing the opportunity as a manifestation that finally worked in her favour, Mansi expressed gratitude for the shift.
Mansi Srivastava on bagging the role
“I’m very happy and grateful that I got positive again. Because it’s very difficult once you do negatives. It’s very difficult. Though I started my career with positive only. I was craving and I was manifesting last year that I want positive, I want to get positive. But in between, I had given auditions for negatives too, frankly, because I hate sitting at home. I gave negatives too. Then, one positive came on the way. But I didn’t like that role. I felt that it wasn’t fitting for my personality. Then, luckily, this happened. I don’t know from where. But yeah, like destiny that this Revati was written for me. Because initially, I had auditioned for a negative role in this show. I had auditioned for a negative role. But then, channel called me for a positive. I was like, this was written destiny. I had manifested earlier. But this is something that I got lucky.”
Speaking about her character Revati, she shared, “She’s calm. She’s just like a housewife. She does all the household chores. She does all the kitchen chores. She listens to everyone. She loves everyone. But she doesn’t know how to run the kitchen. She has to do what her mother tells her to do. She wants that one day, her dream is that one day, she can handle the kitchen on her own. And she can tell everyone what she’s making. But otherwise, a very positive role. She wants everyone’s well being. She wants Radhika to get married. She wants everyone’s well being. There’s just one main characteristic of Revati, that she keeps blabbering. The audience who is thinking, this is happening, this is happening, they will be able to hear her blabbering. She’s kind of the storyteller also.”
Pressure in TV
Drawing parallels with her own life, Mansi said, “She is emotional. Because I also love my kitchen. I love my kitchen. I don’t like it when someone else enters my kitchen. I think it’s all of us. I don’t like it. I like it when I decide what to make. Though I get annoyed that I have to decide every day. You guys also tell me what to make. But there are a lot of parts. And positive, I want to call myself positive. I had to work on this as Revati’s character loves to talk. I had to work on my blabbering. How should I do it. It’s coming naturally now. You have to find an imaginary friend. I have started doing that. I have a friend who is talking to me.”
She also addressed the uncertainties of the television industry. “It’s pressurising. It’s very disappointing also. If a show gets shut down in three months. It feels very disappointing. Because you make new connections. You make new friends. That’s also disappointing. Then there’s a struggle that now we have to look for another show. I really wanted to get a big show that goes on for a long time. And I love TV. I love doing TV. I have not tried to drift to web or movies. Because I enjoy doing what I’m doing. But it’s a struggle.”
