Karisma Kapoor learnt to speak Bengali, rolled cigarettes for her part in Brown

Karisma Kapoor will soon be seen in noir thriller show Brown. The show will be premiered at the Berlin Series Market Select platform. The series is based on the 2016 novel City of Death by Abheek Barua, adapted by Digvijay Singh, Sunayana Kumari and Mayukh Ghosh and directed by Abhinay Deo, reports Variety.

It follows Rita Brown (played by Kapoor), a world-weary and recovering alcoholic but ace detective in the Kolkata Police, belonging to the city's small but influential Anglo-Indian community, who is assigned to the murder case of a young woman from a well-connected family.

According to a report in Variety, Kapoor, who is a non-smoker, also learnt to roll a cigarette. The actor also trained with a language coach to learn the Bengali language that is native to Kolkata and to speak a few words of it and English with an Anglo-Indian accent.

She further told Variety, "She's (her character) beat up, she's been through so much, people have knocked her out. And that's what happens in normal life".

"It's not only depression, or alcoholism - nobody discusses this, but there's a time where people just become irrelevant. She bounces back, because she has it in her. Rita Brown is very inspirational to women out there and that's something that really touched me because I've also been through a journey in life."