India, April 16 -- Actor Kritika Kamra has come a long way since her TV days. Over the past few years, she has worked in some of the most talked-about web series and films, while carving a niche for herself in the OTT space. As her new show, Matka King, gears up for release, Kritika talks to Hindustan Times about the show, working with director Nagraj Manjule, and the landscape for female characters in Indian stories.

Matka King is a fictional story that is inspired by real-life matka barons of Mumbai (then Bombay) - Ratan Khatri and Kalyanji Bhagat. But the show talks about the rise of Brij Bhatti, a fictional matka king, played by Vijay Varma. Talking about her introduction to this world, Kritika says, "The world is fascinating. I did ...