The webseries that made her famous? The monologue in episode 7 that went viral—the one where her character, the vengeful businesswoman Ananya, screams, "The crown does not make the queen, the hunger does!" — was a bastardized version of Lady Macbeth's "unsex me here" speech. The writers had flipped it, dumbed it down, added four expletives and a slap. Ritu had performed it so brilliantly that no one noticed the theft. She had become a star on the back of a ghost.
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