It's a pleasant surprise when one sees her for the first time, shorn of the burden of age that dogs her on screen. If Kamalika Guha Thakurta aka Gayatri Chachi of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi does not look even half the age she portrays in the serial, blame it on the make-up man who convincingly portrays her as a mother to a 40- year-old son. This dusky Bengali beauty, whose acting skills need no introduction to a Kyunki.... regular, would easily qualify as an answer to a search for a protagonist in a 25-year old age group. Read on for a tete-a-tete with Vickey Lalwani at the Sankaram Studios, Goregaon. |
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How did you get your first break on television? |
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Why was 'Mujhe Chand Chahiye' wrapped up in a hurry? |
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How did you get into the Balaji camp? |
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Did you jump at the 'Kyunki...' offer or did you ponder awhile? |
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What was so special about that? |
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Don't you regret that you got slotted into the 'devrani' bracket? |
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Still, does this serial offer enough scope to your acting abilities? |
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And the third fight-master Ketaki Dave is coming back? |
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What did you all feel when she dropped out? |
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What did you feel when Amarr Upadhyay walked out? We tried our best to convince him that he should not leave. We told him, 'If Amitabh Bachchan could do television, why can't you?'. But he stuck to his decision. |
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But I have heard that he is coming back? |
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You are also doing 'Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat' now? |
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Going back to 'Kyunki.....'. Do you think it's easy to live in such a big family in today's times as the serial propagates? |
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Were you comfortable when they took the 20-year leap and changed your look? Television takes lots of close-ups and very soon it would have shown that the wrinkles and the black bags are artificial. On stage, these things are okay. You are at a distance and you can divert the public. On TV, nothing can go unnoticed. Eventually, we took the middle road, and I must say that each one of us is very happy with the look we have presently. |
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Was the 20-year leap taken because the TRPs were falling? Television is all TRP business. It must have been a joint decision by the channel and the producer. Besides, bringing in more characters, I mean the Generation Next, must have been done to have more tracks to work on. |
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Is bringing in Ketaki Dave also a TRP driven move? |
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What is difficult on television? |
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What is the role you yearn to play? Have you thought of joining films? Your co-stars whom you gel most with? Television is taxing. How do you manage with your baby? |
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