India, Sept. 1 -- Actor Ridhima Pandit is making her television comeback after five years, this time stepping into uncharted territory as an antagonist. She plays the unpredictable vamp Lata in Ufff...Yeh Love Hai Mushkil - a role she says she had been manifesting for years: "I have been wanting to play such a character for a while. I even remember asking makers on social media to give me a chance to play a hardcore vamp. Now it's happening. Itne saal baad, I just want people to hate my character."

Ridhima admits the long break from television wasn't by choice. "My TV break was never planned. The first two years went into the pandemic, and after that I wanted to come back with a damdaar role. Else what's the use of waiting," she says. Bu...