Nandana Sen talks to Soumyadipta Banerjee of DNA-India about getting bold on screen, grabbing a Hollywood project and quashes a few rumours
You are doing a film on Raja Ravi Verma to be directed by Ketan Mehta…
‘Rang Rasiya’ is the stunningly beautiful, daring, and timeless love-story of Raja Ravi Varma and his muse, Sugandha - as well as a timely political drama about the censorship of art. Sugandha is the eternal child-woman, an angelic figure who is also every inch a temptress.
A Devadasi designed since childhood to give pleasure but not to claim it, Sugandha retains a purity, an innocence that bely her reality. Ravi Varma sees in her the face and soul of a goddess - a rare combination of the sensuous and the ethereal.
While you have no issues being ‘bold’ on screen, Jimmy Shergill is unable to be ‘bold’ enough...
I approach on-screen intimacy as part of my job, but every actor has her/ his own comfort zone! I truly respect that Jimmy is self-aware enough to know what personal boundaries he wouldn’t want to cross. Whenever he’s been asked to kiss, in ‘Yahan’, ‘Strangers’ and other films, he consistently said no. It’s Jimmy’s prerogative to make sure he’s not out of his element on screen, and all of us must honour that.
Tell us about your role in ‘Strangers’…
The heroine of ‘Strangers’ is Preity - successful, sexy, spirited, smart, spunky- used to a lot of attention from men, but falls for the unconventional advances of a cynical writer (Jimmy). Preity is the ultimate romantic, warm and kind - but when she’s hurt, she can turn momentarily cold, even cruel.
What I love about Preity is that there’s nothing airbrushed about her. She’s a beautiful character who’s not afraid to be ugly. A heroine as honest, raw, and real as Preity is rare.
You play the lead in the upcoming release, ‘The Forest’. Was it produced out of Hollywood by Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss?
Absolutely true! We were lucky to have a producer like him and his partner, Judith James. Radha is entirely different from Preity - the only thing they have in common is that both Radha and Preity are the object of two men’s desire!
Radha is not an outwardly emotional creature but a cerebral, city-sexy, tough-talking, gun-wielding girl who hides a tender heart. While Preity is a romantic who’s disillusioned in love, Radha is a pragmatist who rediscovers love.
There was a sudden newsbreak that you were living in with somebody…
It’s easy to take it in my stride, nothing new. Because both my parents are celebrities, I grew up with a lot of media attention.
What does bother me is how often the press publishes absolutely wrong information, quoting “anonymous” (that is, fictitious!) sources. For example, recently a tabloid ran the story that I’m living in the house of a male friend. No one even tried to check the facts with me. I live very much in my own place, a small sea-side flat I bought two years ago after my first Indian film released. It’s the first home I’ve ever owned and I’m very proud of it.
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