The transformation from a city dweller to a village lad
My roles in my first two movies – Jindra and Saunhmitti di – portrayed me as a villager and I needed to undertake a lot of hard work in order to imbibe the persona of the villager. This is because I was born and raised in Delhi and did not have very strong ties with my village in Punjab. My roots go back to the village Padora in district Hoshiarpur in Punjab and we still had some relatives living there. There was a little farming being done also although not much. Then thought of dressing up for a village visit never occurred to me and I thought of wearing my dark green turban which represented the green of the fields of Punjab. As KirandeepRayat I visited Punjab many times, but this time was different because it was a learning journey. This is why from among my hundred or so turbans I chose all the green ones for my visit. It may seem odd to people that I chose turban according to the place that I was visiting. But I had always been very fond of turbans and hence had a large collec