Tannishtha Chatterjee doesn't need any introduction. Her films do the talking for her across the diaspora. Though not hugely seen in the mainstream cinema, she is well known globally for her eccentric work. So as we quiz her about her upcoming film 'Angry Indian Goddesses', she gets our attention to some hard-hitting realities of our society.

How is this film different?

I think it's the way it's been done. Very organic process where we had story, but it wasn't a very specific script where like you are suppose to stand here, reach the mark now you light here and say this line. It wasn't done like that at all.

It just started from story people started saying things and in their character. Nalin (Film director) would just put us into situations and see how women are reacting and that's how the whole thing got created. He designed it like, that so that it's very different from most other films in India. But having said that he was very clear what he wanted, but the reactions he would get from the actress were then and there, they were real. And shooting a film was like getting into meditation, doing some exercises, acting exercises. Then slowing Dilip our associate and Nalin they would take us to a room ask us to close our eyes and say start. And you start on improvisation and you didn't even know when Swapnil (Cameramen) started shooting.

So it was very different process, in terms of the story, it is also different it's the first Indian film seven women a buddy film. We haven't really seen this thing in a mainstream and yeah it's fun and friendship, it's life it's colour, it's Goa (Film was majorily shot in Goa).

Exciting idea for a bachelorette weekend.

Get a lovely bungalow. Call all your girlfriends there. Good wine, beautiful foods, fantastic music, play a lot of games; Goa means we had lots of beautiful food. Truth and Dare. Yeah! In a Bachelorette party, wine and good sea food with lights off, beautiful bungalow that's the game you should play. (Giggles)

Which Indian Goddess would you like to cos-play?

It's Kali and that what we are being portraying, in many ways we celebrate women and goddesses in our country but, you know the way we treat woman is not nice. It's also a reflection of that it's a fun film, but there are many complex issues that one also addresses through fun and that's how women lives are also. It's not women are also sad or always happy; it transits like anything from that energy to this energy. And that's why it's called Angry Indian Goddesses. One hand you are calling them goddesses, on the other hand the way we are being treated is not fair.

What would be that one boon to give to a man?

(Laughs) The one boon this friend of mine says he wants to look at women in an equal eye. He doesn't want to be born with the bias.

Your one on-the-edge moment in real life.

We had that as we went through a very real process. Sometimes we would be angry with what was happening; sometimes we would extremely be in a party mood. Nalin actually made us go through those things. It is almost like a reality show, but it's much deeper than that it just didn't remain at the surface. He would put us into situations, even within our characters. For example, if two characters are not getting along he would create this situation between them that we were actually reacting like that. It was not orchestrated we were going into our own psychologies, our own insecurities, our own strengths and weakness. It was a kind of therapy and psychological process, which acting is all about. Superficial explorations we never go into that. It is just here we were allowed to do that.

What did you learn from your co-stars and vice-versa?

We learnt to be patient. There were moment when we hated each other, there were moments when we were biased; all these things have happened. For some of the actresses, who came out this entire process it was like a therapy.

One quality that both your onscreen and off screen character has..

I play social activist. While I was doing research most social activists are women and Nalin gave that character to me I didn't create one like others. I am a very socially aware person; I have a lot of opinions about a lot of things. I think Nalin knows that about me. So in this Nargis character I play you would see some aspects of me in it. I probably explode more of me, while I was shooting of it.

What would audience take from the film?

I think lots of things. It's a complex film. Women are complex they would of course take a lot of fun and entertainment. It is an entertaining film. They will enjoy it. Like everywhere it has won people choice award in Toronto, Rome. It's not a critic award choice but Peoples' choice award. It's a popular film they will have a lot of fun, but they will also relate to many films which are complex and deeper.