Esha Gupta had always admired Prakash Jha as a filmmaker, even before she started working in films. The actress did Chakravyuh just for the experience of working with Prakash Jha film.
A close friend of the actress confirms, “She loves the way he creates a world and she wanted to be apart of the same. Coming from Prakash Jha, she knew that the film is going to be hard hitting one and she did not want to miss such a brilliant opportunity of working in it”.
Her role might not be a central character in the film but length was never an issue. “In fact at one stage Esha Gupta felt that she should get a special appearance credit instead of main credit with Abhay Deol, Manoj Bajpai and Arjun Rampal”.
Before Chakravyuh, Esha Gupta has done two films – Jannat 2 and Raaz 3 and both have had record openings.