‘I’ve been in the industry for a decade, but nothing mattered until Scam 1992’ From a Telugu movie, to TV advertisements, and web-series like Ladies Room and The Family Man, Shreya Dhanwanthary was still waiting for a role to reckon with. Updated: December 20, 2020 8:47:11 am Dhanwanthary had been waiting for a role like the one she played in Scam 1992. First Role: Playing college girl Shailu in Telugu film Sneha Geetham (2010) Standout Act: A Viral Wedding (Eros Now/Prime Video), Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (SonyLIV) “I have been in the industry for a decade, but nothing mattered until Scam 92,” says actor Shreya Dhanwanthary, 29, who plays the complex role of the journalist Sucheta Dalal in the Hansal Mehta-directed Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. “I did Ladies Room (TV miniseries, 2016) with Yash Raj Films, and it became a big thing, and was critically acclaimed, too. But people didn’t put together that it was the same girl from a Samsung phone TV commercial and the lesbian rock chick from a Fastrack commercial. I would chameleon-ise into various roles,” she says. Then came the 2019 film Why Cheat India opposite Emraan Hashmi, and, a role in the much-talked-about Manoj Bajpayee-starrer web-series Family Man (2019), “but things shifted in a phenomenal way only since Scam 1992,” says the Hyderabad-born Dhanwanthary, whose miniseries A Viral Wedding, which she wrote and acted in, released this May.