Parental support is important for people with special needs : Snigdhaa Srivastava
This was more so because she could not use the usual sign language used by the dumb primarily because the heroine is uneducated and belongs to a family in a village where there are no special schools.
SNIGDHAA SRIVASTVA, the young protagonist Kankoo of Shorr… Goongi Kankoo ki bolti kahani’, on SaharaOne which is probably the first Indian tele-series to have a central character who is dumb, says she now appreciates the helplessness of those who are unable to speak. Snigdhaa, who plays Kankoo says the director had even decided not to use any voice-over. “I have to act in such a way that the viewers will understand what I am trying to say even when I am crying or praying. I had to then co-ordinate my hand and lip movements.”
Stressing that she was a girl who believed in doing things differently rather than doing different things, Snigdhaa admitted that during the shooting, there was a scene where she was unable to make the correct movements and out of frustration “spoke out. Though everyone laughed, I had to do the scene again.” She has decided to use gestures in her everyday life as per her director’s suggestion so that she is used to the character.
The actress says that the serial has made her look at differently-abled people “in a normal manner. They too can be chirpy and bubbly. It is also important people with special needs get parental and family support.”
Snigdhaa has earlier acted in series like Rahe Tera Aashirwad, Kumkum and Paraya Dhan and stressed that she had played the typical girl next door in each of these.
‘Shorr’…Goongi Kankoo Ki Bolti Kahani, is the story of Kankoo, the youngest daughter of Harjeevan and Sushila Mandaliya from Vankaner in Saurashtra. While both the brothers of Kankoo are married, Kankoo’s parents are still in search of a compatible match for her. Kankoo is physically disadvantaged since childhood, she’s mute, she can’t speak and although she is young and beautiful, marriage has become a distant dream for her. She desires to lead a life like any other girl of her age, she wishes to sing, wants to talk to everyone, communicate her feelings through words and dreams of a blissful married life. But all these basic desires of Kankoo like any girl of her age have been eluding her time and again. Will Kankoo’s aspirations be fulfilled? Shorr is an emotive saga of a girl Kankoo, for whom expression is the only tool of communication and thereby reflects her pain and despair.
The actress says that the serial has made her look at differently-abled people “in a normal manner. They too can be chirpy and bubbly. It is also important people with special needs get parental and family support.”
Snigdhaa has earlier acted in series like Rahe Tera Aashirwad, Kumkum and Paraya Dhan and stressed that she had played the typical girl next door in each of these.
‘Shorr’…Goongi Kankoo Ki Bolti Kahani, is the story of Kankoo, the youngest daughter of Harjeevan and Sushila Mandaliya from Vankaner in Saurashtra. While both the brothers of Kankoo are married, Kankoo’s parents are still in search of a compatible match for her. Kankoo is physically disadvantaged since childhood, she’s mute, she can’t speak and although she is young and beautiful, marriage has become a distant dream for her. She desires to lead a life like any other girl of her age, she wishes to sing, wants to talk to everyone, communicate her feelings through words and dreams of a blissful married life. But all these basic desires of Kankoo like any girl of her age have been eluding her time and again. Will Kankoo’s aspirations be fulfilled? Shorr is an emotive saga of a girl Kankoo, for whom expression is the only tool of communication and thereby reflects her pain and despair.
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