Sandhya’s Supportive Club pg1 n ans. ques - Page 6

'Fame does not matter to me'
3 Sep 2006, 1943 hrs IST,DIPANNITA GHOSH BISWAS,TNN


Her detractors say her take-no-prisoners arrogance is abrasive. But actor Sandhya Mridul is in no hurry to get there. She doesn't let ambition interfere with creativity.

You are not from a filmi background. Tell us something about your family...

After completing my graduation from LSR, Delhi, I moved on to do marketing management, after which I shifted to Mumbai in 1994. My family has a lot of lawyers and by default I was expected to go the same way. I did have a marketing job but I loved acting and dancing and took a permanent vacation from that role.

We hardly get to see you on small screen. Why?

Quality and creativity take a backseat on TV. The various reality shows are far more interesting but maybe I'll return to it some day.

I made my debut with Swabhimaan and then went on to do Koshish and Hubahu and till date, I'm remembered as Kajal of Koshish.

I was the first bahu of Indian television, that too on a K serial. Films are much more relaxed and you have plenty of scope to innovate.

I find TV to be a very stressful and repetitive medium. Apart from the lack of scope of variety of roles, once you start playing a character, that particular character becomes a part of you for years.

I get really peeved when serials go on and on. Conversely, in films, once you finish playing a certain character, you detach from it.

What about the typical song and dance, teary-eyed heroine?

Why not? Truth is that I've been experimenting with roles and people are confused as to where they will pigeon-hole me. Fame does not matter to me.

If fame was my trip, I would have also been chasing commercial cinema in any avatar — be it even sister or bhabhi — and not crossover, small budget films like I am doing now.

There must have been a lot of comments that you hear from people for all your performances...

Being admonished for wearing short clothes or smoking publicly are the most common of them all. After Koshish and Saathiya, there were even matrimonial proposals that found way to my address!

In all your films, you have in one way or another, a Bong connection. So how is it working with Bengalis?

Right from directors Shashank and Mrigank Ghosh to Konkona and Rani Mukerji, I've worked with them all. In fact, Shaan and Sagarika have tried to teach me the language and all that I can say is Aami bangla janina. I think I relate to Bengalis when it comes to their kookiness!

Projects you're working on...

There's Deadline with Irrfan and Konkona, Farhan Akhtar's Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, then Chowkie, in which I play a bar dancer mainly dealing with their business, afterhours and an English film, Great Indian Butterfly.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1952788.cms

What a deal
30 Jun 2007, 0000 hrs IST,Epaper


One play titled Double Deal and directed by Mahesh Dattani. Two brilliant actors delivering mindblowing performance. What more could Kolkatans (who were present at the venue - a five-star hotel in the city) ask for on a Thursday evening? Nothing really, for they were rendered speechless by the time Sandhya Mridul and Mahesh Manjrekar took a bow.

The high-on energy and power play was a suspense thriller. Full of intrigue, deceit and revenge, the use of sheer brutal force in the play had the audience on the edge of their seats and whetted their appetite.
And the chemistry between Mridul and Manjrekar was not on a 'silence mode' unlike the conscience of the character that Sandhya played. Wonder if people went for some more cocktails after the show - you know just to cool down!


http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-216 2247,prtpage-1.cms

Add me in :D Is she married? because I find her and Javed(her choreographer)a really good looking couple. The way they dance it shows they are comfortable and passionate while dancing, I hope the reason for their really good chemistry is love 😉 I hope that love will happen between them(lol I take my words back if she or Javed are already taken 😳)

Originally posted by: robinc07

Add me in :D Is she married? because I find her and Javed(her choreographer)a really good looking couple. The way they dance it shows they are comfortable and passionate while dancing, I hope the reason for their really good chemistry is love 😉 I hope that love will happen between them(lol I take my words back if she or Javed are already taken 😳)

Though before she was an actress and worked as a general manager at KLM in the mid-ninties, she was married. Then when her acting career began, she had a divorce. So she has been unmarried since and is single now. Javed is single, I think. At least there has been nothing I have seen to indicate anything about him being taken. But then who knows? Yes, I agree that Sandhya and Javed have an undeniable chemistry though and would make a good couple. Let's see. Here is an excerpt of an article where she talks about it.

"She shifted to Mumbai and joined the Times of India as a trainee in marketing management in 1993. After eight months of training and working on the Femina Miss India project she upped and left to join KLM. She went on to become the youngest general manager in the airlines. But two years down the line she was bitten by the acting bug. She quit her cushy job and decided to struggle to find a foothold as an actress. A chance meeting with Tony and Diya Singh and she found herself acting in Banegi Apni Baat... an experience she remembers with a lot of fondness.

She had also got married in the meantime. It was her husband who pointed out to her that she should try her hand at acting. She accepted his advice but unfortunately the marriage was falling apart. "I got divorced about the same time as my acting career began," she says, "but I am not the kind of person to let the world know what I am going through. Only my close friends and family knew and stood by me. That is why it hurts when magazines link me with Ashutosh Rana, one of the people who stood by me through out those difficult days."

She pulled herself out of the divorce trauma and immersed herself in her work; Serials like Muskaan, Ashirwaad, Mungerilal ke bhai Navrangilal, Talaash, Swabhimaan, Jeene Bhi do Yaaron, Farz and Tanha followed as a result."

http://www.godubai.com/telelife/archives/article.asp?section =Cover+Story&adate=2/1/2002

Thanks for the news, I hope they fall for eachother cuz my family thinks something is happening between them cuz they have the best chemistry on JD2. 😳

wow gr8 going !!! 👏 👏 👏

I hope she will be in Finals...looking at Prachi out & sandhya got least votes anything can happen 😕

Yeah, that's true. I think we have to be prepared for anything. Wish I could vote online like with SRGMP, I think it would balance things out and at least offset the strong regional voting keeping undeserving contestants (cough Sonali cough Mika) in. Well I hope she is going to keep getting high scores to stay in the competition but that may not be enough either.

Sandhya with elder brother Siddharth

Still of Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Limited

😕 For some weird reason i have a bad feeling for Sandhya this week!!!

Originally posted by: Shawn89

😕 For some weird reason i have a bad feeling for Sandhya this week!!!

I am almost sure this time Sonali will go...the reason why Sandhya got lowest votes this time is that her voting base is mainly Delhi. For delhites, lives revolve around Diwali starting at least 4 days before diwali, which is not the case for other parts of India.