mid day article-nandini's preg pause

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"On December 26, I took ill while shooting. I had not been keeping well as I had been shooting continuously for bother Kesar and Kavyanjali. On December 27, I fainted and was bed-ridden. That's why I could not shoot. And anyway there was a short break for New Year. I was back on the sets on January 2," she point out.

Interestingly, Nandini's characters, Kesar and Pammi are in the throes of pregnancy in both Kesar and Kavyanjali. As Kesar, she is really pregnant with a slight blood pressure problem. While in Kavyanjali, she has been shown to have just delivered after a fake pregnancy. "This has been done in connivance with mother-in-law Nitya (Amrita Singh).

She sees me one day stuffing a cushion in my dress and the cat was out of the bag," laughs Nandini. "As Kavya's (Eijaz Khan) second wife, Pammi had faked her pregnancy to keep Kavya away from first wife Anjali (Anita Hasanandani). I am shown packed off to Pune and the baby that Nitya passes off as mine is actually Anjali's baby which was kidnapped immediately after birth. Anjali is told her baby is dead."

Cushion act

For both the shows, Nandini has separate cushions which were inflated according to the size and month of the pregnancy. "It takes me barely a minute to wear the cushion below the dress. In Kavyanjali I don't need the cushion any longer, while in Kesar I am seven months pregnant, so the cushion act is still on."

Far from exhaustion or suffering from labour pangs, Nandini is enjoying essaying pregnant characters. "It's fun, especially when the cushion has to be adjusted according to the month. After all it is just a character and my role."

Nandini, who has done a couple of music videos, was an air-hostess with Jet Airways. She starred opposite Govinda in David Dhawan film Ek Aur Ek Gyarah.