Paatal Lok 2: Tillotama Shome opens up on her biggest fear while portraying an Assamese cop
The crime thriller series debuted on January 17, 2025.

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Actress Tillotama Shome is garnering a lot of praise for her performance in Paatal Lok Season 2. The actress portrayed Assamese police officer Meghna Barua in the crime-thriller series starring Jaideep Ahlawat. She recently discussed how she prepared for the part, stressing that she needed to play the character perfectly since she didn’t want to let the Northeasterners down.
Tillotama Shome recently discussed the steps she took to ensure her portrayal of an Assamese police officer was accurate in an interview with India Today Digital. “It was a source of worry for me that when you are a Bengali, you are representing a character who is Assamese, speaks Nagamese, you don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings because your representation made them feel like ‘Gosh! Couldn’t they get an Assamese person to play this character’?,” she said.
“That was very important for me because the Northeast is, anyway, misrepresented, under-represented, and I didn’t want to add that fuel to the fire by also not catching the language properly. So, it was very important for me,” she added
In the same interview, she also explained that she enjoyed portraying people who recognize right from wrong and never give up, despite challenges.
It stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Ishwak Singh, Gul Panag, Nagesh Kukunoor, Jahnu Barua, Anurag Arora, Prashant Tamang, Merenla Imsong, and LC Sekhose in important roles. Directed by Avinash Arun Dhaware and written by Sudip Sharma, Abhishek Banerjee, Rahul Kanojia, and Tamal Sen it is streaming in Amazon Prime Video now.
Meanwhile, Tillotama will be next seen in Baksho Bondi with Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, and Suman Saha. The film is produced by Aman Mann, Saumyananda Sahi, Shaunak Sen, and Naren Chandavarkar.
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