Sharvari Wagh Opens Up About Working With Alia Bhatt On YRF-Led Spy Film: It's a Big Responsibility

Sharvari Wagh is all set to headline the first-ever female-led spyverse film directed by YRF. The actress will share the screen with Alia Bhatt in the movie. Ahead of the movie's release, the Bunty Aur Babli 2 actress shared how featuring in the movie is a ‘ big responsibility’. 

‘The expectations are high but there’s always a first time’, says Sharvari Wagh 

The yet-to-be-titled film will see Bhatt and Wagh play super-agents in the action entertainer. The movie will go on floors this year. Sharvari Wagh, who made her Bollywood debut with YRF’s 2021 film Bunty Aur Babli 2 told PTI in an interview, “It is an exciting time for women in the industry because roles are written for them. The fact that films like Spy Universe which were headlined by big superstars, and for me to be sharing screen with Alia Bhatt, who is a huge star, is a big deal and big responsibility.” 

The actor, who looks up to Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, and Bhatt as female action stars, believes it’s about time that women took the lead in action films and set an example for the next generation. “The expectations are high but there’s always a first time. I’m fortunate to be part of a first-time thing (female-led action film). I’m very proud to be part of such a film because I know a lot of young women and girls of every age group will watch a film like this. I’m sure we will be able to inspire them because if not now, then when?” The two-film-old Wagh started undergoing extensive training for three months in action but little did she know that this was her audition test for the spy film.

Sharvari Wagh recalls the time she auditioned for the YRF-led film 

Sharvari recalled, “I didn’t know that I was auditioning for the film, I didn’t know that a female-led spy film was getting made. I had met Adi (Aditya Chopra) sir and he wanted me to train in action. This was more than a year ago. He wanted me to go to a particular class and asked to shoot my videos and action sequences. The first two months went in learning the basics. It is not as easy as Tiger Shroff makes it look like.” 

“I used to send my videos to sir, and he would say, ‘This is great, this is good’. Later, I found out that it was basically an audition to see whether I can get an action body language, whether I can pull off action the way they want me to. I did a lot of rig work; I was put on a harness. So, it was an extensive action audition,” Wagh said. Sharvari was last seen in the horror-comedy movie Munjya which is currently running in theatres. 

(With inputs from PTI)