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Tina's travelling tales

On her recent trip to Gwalior, the actress' tourist guide gave her the creeps

Reena Thapar Kapoor

Last week Tina Parakh better known as Shruti of Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki found herself in an uncomfortable position in Gwalior. She was there to inaugurate an upmarket mall.

The actress recalls, "I was excited as I was getting a two-day break from work and an opportunity to visit the beautiful city."

After finishing work she decided to go sightseeing. She says, "The hotel organised a local tourist guide for me. Initially he came across as an extremely polite and a decent person. He showed me the most exotic and historic places in the city. And in fact I was actually enjoying myself till I sensed something strange."

Parakh continues: "I realised that the guide kept staring at me from time to time. He wasn't behaving badly. But I was uncomfortable as he'd turn back to look at me every five minutes."

After a while, the otherwise tolerant and patient Tina lost her cool. "His job was to show me around but he was acting so funny that it made me lose my cool. Finally I asked him why he was constantly staring at me like that!"

However, the guide's reply made Parakh even more uncomfortable. "He later told me that I looked familiar. He told me that I remind him of someone he knows. I didn't know how to react to that, so I decided to just walk out," she says maintaining that she didn't want to embarrass the people around her and wanted to keep a low profile.

On the career-front, Parakh says she is going great guns. "I'm enjoying working in Kasauti... and Kahani... Apart from television, I've done three Pakistani shows, which have garnered fabulous response and that gives me enough reason to look for something as interesting and challenging," she says.