Exclusive: “Families Are Tough To Deal With”, Says Eisha Chopra. She Hopes People Find ‘Salt City’ Relatable
If you are a fan of family dramas and have already watched the previously released shows, then there is a new one on the block that was released today. Yes, I am talking about the Sony Liv show Salt City which revolves around the Bajpai family’s complex dynamics and how one incident causes all the members to confront each other. This changes how they see one another entirely as well. We spoke to actor-writer Eisha Chopra who is known for her performance in What The Folks and Out Of Love, and who also plays a key role in Salt City. While speaking to us, she shed light on what got her to get onboard Salt City and what she hopes the audience will take away from the show.
Eisha Chopra On Salt City
Sharing her views on Salt City and What The Folks, both being family-oriented dramas, Eisha said that they are both completely different. She said people often ask who is the lead of the show but in a family drama, the ‘family is the protagonist’. Elaborating more, she said, “It’s been very different to grow with one character and also create a character for the first time.” She also drew comparisons between her character, Anita, in What The Folks and Eisha in Salt City by saying, “Why I really enjoyed in What The Folks is that my character (Anita) was one of the first sorts of feminist characters in that web series space and I really enjoyed that. And that’s also the reason I wanted to do that. The character that got created was like a sort of a trailblazer. She was sort of someone who was very outwardly strong and knew what she wanted.”
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Giving us a peek into her character Eisha in the Salt City, she said, “My character in Salt City is someone who grows into this. She’s actually someone who is much quieter and much more subdued. She is not the sort of fiery, feisty person and she finds that space inside her. So that was really interesting for me because I knew that this is what I wanted to do with the character. It’s about a woman who finds her voice. What The Folks is about a woman who already has a voice and she’s she’s already shouting from the rooftops. Whereas this woman sort of finds her anger and her strength and she comes out with it. And that was very exciting as an actor. To kind of portray a character that’s on the cusp of a realization and is really exciting because you get to change with the character.”
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Talking about the family dynamics of Salt City, Eisha said, “If you see the trailer there’s this one line, which is one of my dialogues actually, right towards the end which is ‘Iss ghar mei sab aankho pe patti daalke ghoom rahe hai’. I think that denial is a very big part of family life. You can’t love someone without lying to them. It’s just not a possibility. And I think that truth can be very ugly sometimes and intimacy can be really scary. I think that what happens with families is that they actually just humans at the end of the day. But you would just know them well and knowing people that well doesn’t always work out. We accept things that we don’t want to accept just because they are family. We hide things from our family as well.”
Giving us a heads up about what to expect from the show, she said, “So what happens with this family is that they are functioning like that, but then something happened and they have no choice, but to confront everything that they have denied, I wouldn’t say lied or I’ll say that they just kind of confront themselves. So the story picks up at that moment where everyone’s on the brink of major self-realization and we’re all getting exposed basically.”
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Coming to what Eisha hopes the audience will take away from Salt City is, “I hope that someone looks at it and just realizes that it’s okay if your family is F-ed up. So I hope that people find some sort of relate-ability that life is tough and families are even tougher and that they feel a little less alone in what they’re going through.”
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