’Reel’ative values----- JuhiParmar

Do artistes identify with the characters they play? Obsessive lovers, submissive daughters-in-law and temperamental sons? Are our stars the same way in the real life? Or do they feel repulsed by the eccentricities they are forced to enact on the telly? Natasha Havewala explores.

The coy and ever sacrificing bahu , Kumkum, has converted Juhi Parmar into something similar! "Kumkum is too good to be believable. What I feel right about her is that she is someone who stands up for the truth, always. And this is something I have learnt to incorporate in my life too," dimples Juhi. But unlike Kumkum, I won't ever become the self-sacrificing bahu who will live in pain for the sake of her family! I have my own way to cope up with my life," asserts Juhi.

And what about the constant lachrymose image that she keeps up. "Oh, can't help that," says Juhi flatly. "But what I like is that although Kumkum keeps crying, she also dares not to be afraid and this is something I relate with