Shreya Dhanwanthary has played real-life heroines and make-believe molls. But underneath it all, she’s just a geek, hoping to inherit the Earth
Good things happen when Shreya Dhanwanthary gazes into the distance. In Scam 1992 (2020), her breakout role, in which she plays real-life business journalist Sucheta Dalal, that gaze means she’s uncovering Harshad Mehta’s epic stock-market fraud. In her latest Netflix series, Guns & Gulaabs, in which she plays the enigmatic femme fatale Yamini, her gaze harks back to a mysterious past shared between her and the not-quite-good cop Arjun.
Shreya Dhanwanthary says that she’s still a geek at heart. (Photographer: Abhishek Verma; Hair & make-up: Ankita Manwani)
Shreya Dhanwanthary’s breakout role was in Scam 1992 (2020), in which she plays real-life journalist Sucheta Dalal. (Photographer: Nikhil Shenoy; Make up: Omkar Vardam; Hair: Swapnil)Dhanwanthary says she would have loved to have been on the cast of Casablanca.Pyaasa is another film Dhanwanthary wishes she could have been a part of.Dhanwanthary misses the cartoons from the ’90s. “Top Cat, SWAT Kats, Tom and Jerry, Dexter, (above) Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet, Looney Toons—all of them were so good!”