Bhagyashree Tarke, a contestant on stand-up comedian Samay Raina's India's Got Latent Season 2, won the episode with her act as Salma Deewani, a Hyderabadi Muslim girl. Her performance, marked by an authentic Hyderabadi accent, comic timing and witty punchlines, impressed the panelists, including Huma Qureshi, Krushna Abhishek, Ashish Solanki and Balraj Ghai.

Salma scored a perfect 10 from all the panelists and also awarded herself 10 points on her card. She took home a Rs 1 lakh cash prize and an Ai+ Nova 2 smartphone. Asked what she planned to do with the money, Salma said she would donate some of it to Nepal.S2

Tarke, 35, is a Hyderabad-based stage actor and theatre maker and a trained actor from the National School of Drama (NSD) in Delhi. Before turning to performing arts, she worked in print media, writing for several newspapers and serving as a correspondent covering Hyderabad's Old City, where she reported on religion, crime and occasionally politics.S2

Her stage work includes original productions such as Is There a Way, With Nothing On and Sarenta, and plays including Sakharam Binder and The Good Doctor. She has collaborated with directors including Vishal Bhardwaj, Mira Nair, Amitesh Grover and Atul Kumar, and made her OTT debut in Vishal Bhardwaj's murder-mystery series Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley.S2

Tarke told OTTPlay that the character grew out of an idea she had after joining NSD, when she wanted to create a solo performance of her own. Salma is a lonely woman with two young children whose husband lives in the Gulf, a distinctive Dakkhani character that has now reached a wider audience through the show.S2