Delhi Crime 3 team bats for proper structure around working hours

In an industry known for long and irregular hours, the cast of Delhi Crime 3, including Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal and Huma Qureshi, expressed the need for a work environment which is “not exploitative and allows creative aberration when the situation demands”.

Shah, who has been in the film industry for three decades, said she is now in a position to say “I want to go home”. The actor explained she loves being on set, but sometimes it becomes exhausting. “After all these years, I can say, ‘I need to go home’. We are very reasonable actors, we are not badly behaved, we understand when. It’s like we’ve to finish this, we get that. But you can’t make that a normal,” the actor, who returns as DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in the third season of the International Emmy Award-winning series said.

The debate about working hours in the film industry started after Bollywood star Deepika Padukone opted out of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s film Spirit due to differences with the makers over her request to limit her working hours to eight per day.

Dugal, who is seen in the role of cop Neeti Singh in Delhi Crime, said proper rules should be laid out in terms of working hours on a set.

Delhi Crime 3 will stream on Netflix from November 13.