Mita Vashisth as Duruka in DKDM-DNA Article

Mita Vasisht is all set to make an entry in the popular mythological serialDevon Mein Dev Mahadev and has started shooting for it. She will be playing the role of Daruka, a queen who turned into an ascetic and a shiv-bhakth.

"What I found interesting about the role is that it has grey shades to it. Daruka is a queen who gives up everything at one point to become an ascetic and then again goes back to being a queen. I was fascinated by her.

She does solid penance and later gets a lot of power which she misuses just like today's politicians," says Mita who was last seen as a stern principal in Surveen Guggal. "Yes, but the track changed and the story went elsewhere.

The principal died I think," she jokes. The reason she has taken up Mahadev, is that it requires just five days of shooting. "Right now, that's what I have been told and since I was free, I took it up," says Mita, who has just finished directing a docu-drama, She of the Four Names based on a Kashmiri poet Lal Ded.

She has also done a solo 75 minute play on the same subject. However, in the film she is not playing the lead role. Mita has to her credit some of the biggest serials like Pachpan Khambe Lal Deewarein, Bharat Ek Khoj, Swabhimaan and films like Dhrohkaal.