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Issue No. 8
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Featured In this issue:
- Kangana : ‘Who said I’m TROUBLED?’
- Shilpa: Trying to seduce Abhi back from John?
- Bold and the beautiful Rekha
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Kangana : ‘Who said I’m TROUBLED?’ (BT, Mum, 07Nov08,P1)
Kangna Ranaut is now in the news more for her performances than controversies
The focus is no more on her personal life, it’s now on her performances. With a lot of appreciation coming her way, Kangna Ranaut is charged up more than ever about her career wanting to do only good work now. So far one may have seen her play the ‘troubled’ girl in most of her films, but there’s a lot more she has to offer to her audiences, she tells BT.
Whether it’s Gangster, Woh Lamhe or Fashion, you are constantly playing the ‘troubled’ girl...
It’s unfair of people to say that all my roles are alike. In one, there’s the trouble of seeking a family, in the other film I’m troubled because I’m a schizo, in the third there’s trouble because I’m in love with the wrong man and in the fourth I can’t handle success. They are troubles of different kind. In two years, I’ve explored more of troubles. But the fact is that my approach to every film has been different. Kala ke sirf nau ras hain. Of course, I’m keen to experiment with different emotions. People tend to generalise. If in my case they say I’m only playing the troubled girl, to somebody else they’ll say you are only dancing around the trees.
Are you going to be troubled again in your next film Raaz 2?
Yes! In Raaz 2 there is a ghost troubling me.
Your performance as a drug addict in your latest film has won you a lot of appreciation...
It’s a strong role and every scene needed more than a normal performance. I had to get into the skin of the character. It was tough. I had to starve, be dehydrated for two days. I’d be on empty stomach so the pain showed. My director Madhur Bhandarkar and I worked on it together.
Have you met model Gitanjali on who your character is supposedly based?
It’s not based on her. I’m a supermodel, someone who doesn’t value success and cannot handle it. There are supermodels who’ve got on to drugs. At 16-17 they have all the money in the world, all the men hitting on them, the adulation... they lose it.
In your forthcoming film Kites you play a salsa dancer?
I’m excited to shoot the dance number. You’ll see me in a very different role.
Are you more particular now about the kind of films you take up?
Now it’s very important for me to do films from which I learn. There was a point when I did a film for other reasons, they were to speed up my career. Now, I want to work with really talented people. Not that I haven’t been till now, but now I’ll be looking at films from a different point of view.
Life on the personal front?
I’m happy. I can just concentrate on my work. There are no distractions. Only good people around me. My family is happy, my friends are happy, Adhyayan (Suman) is happy and that helps me be focussed.
Shilpa: Trying to seduce Abhi back from John? (BT, Mum, 07Nov08,P44)
Ooof, my darlings. Didn’t we just hear that Abhishek Bachchan’s character in Dostana is supposed to be gay? Chasing Johnny boy all over the place? And here he is, seemingly wooing (or getting wooed by) sexy Shilpa Shetty. He hardly looks his ‘gay part’, na? Tch, tch! But we don’t blame the lad.
If a seduction as hot as Ms Shetty comes along, even a statue would probably spring to Viagra-induced life. And Abhi is too much a man’s man – in real life. Now thank God for that. Or a certain Ms Ash and a certain Ms Bips would be gunning for the ‘man’ after their men. Complicated? Forget it. Our head’s spinning too.
BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (BT, Mum, 07Nov08,P38)
Her ageless beauty is only a part of the legend that actress Rekha has carved for herself, explores Bollywood Biographies on Zoom
She’s the ugly duckling turned swan who ruled over Bollywood for more than a decade. Rekha entered the film industry with her dusky complexion and more than just a round figure, a far cry from what the industry endorsed, at the age of 13 and delivered a hit with Sawaan Bhaadon, her debut film.
An illegitimate child of South actor Gemini Ganesan, Rekha struggled to establish her surname for a long time. Alone and vulnerable, she learnt the ropes on the sets of her films, continually seeking to revamp her image with every new film. Her proximity with the Bachchan khandaan was quite well-known in the industry. Such was Jaya Bachchan’s influence on her, that the latter supposedly adopted Jaya’s style onscreen.
The actress went on to romance her co-star in Ghar, the charming Vinod Mehra. They nearly painted the town red with their affair. Yet Rekha seemed to be seeking something more. She was awed by Amitabh Bachchan who played her guide and mentor through her filmi career. She sought feedback from Amitabh after every scene and dance step, and wanted to match step for step. Their pair had a crackling chemistry on screen to the extent where it posed a threat to Bachchan’s personal life.
Bollywood Biographies on Zoom charts the course that the actor took to experience success without a godfather in the industry. Rekha, never to be kept down for a long time bounced back with a new look to give tough competition to the likes of Raveena Tandon in Khiladiyon ke Khiladi.
She made ‘dusky’ alluring as cosmetic brand Lakme, for the first time, launched an exclusive copper tone endorsed by the actor. Married and separated, and a professional low later, Rekha did some memorable roles.
Says actor Farooque Sheikh in the show, “She is one of those who can give brilliant performances in any kind of genre, be it comedy or melodrama, she excels in all of it. She is one of those rare complete actresses.” However, we say, for the original Umrao Jaan, the journey has just begun.
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