Rakul Preet Singh: At the end of the day we would smell like sheep
The Hindu
From learning the Rayalaseema dialect to tending sheep, actor Rakul Preet Singh talks of the work that went into the Telugu film, ‘Konda Polam’
In her previous Telugu film Check, actor Rakul Preet Singh was a lawyer and in her Hindi film Sardaar ka Grandson, she was an architect. In a departure from the many urban roles she has played so far, her forthcoming Telugu film Konda Polam will see her as a native of Rayalaseema region, for which she had to learn to mind sheep.
Director Krish Jagarlamudi, actor Vaisshnav Tej and the unit filmed Konda Polam in the forest region for more than 40 days, along with 1000 sheep. “We observed and learnt how the shepherds manage their flock. In the middle of filming a scene, even if one sheep turns the other way, the rest would follow. I witnessed herd mentality upfront,” laughs Rakul, speaking on the phone from Mumbai where she now lives.
The unit would trek uphill each day and walk a few kilometres to the shooting spot. In a few days, they got used to having sheep around them: “The sheep would sleep at our feet, they would be around us. At the end of the day we would smell like sheep.”