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| TELE EXPRESS |
| What's happening to Nimmo? | ||
| Our correspondent finds out when she visits the sets of Balaji Telefilms' latest daily soap that the actresses believe this one is really different | ||
| Anurita Rathore | ||
| New Delhi, April 30: Here am I wondering Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka. We are on the sets of the new Star One show - it's a hospital scene where Nimmo - impeccably dressed, her colour bag hanging around her neck - is worrying about her father along with her two sisters. 12 takes and 4 make-up touches later, Nimmo managed to convey her unhappy expression and five-line dialogue right!😕😆 Apart from Nimmo and her sisters Naina and Swati, we watch her mother Neeta Mathuria (Sujata Mehta) and Kantaben (Bharati Achrekar) who are trotting around the set, ready for their shots that comes next. So let's catch up with some of these ladies. Sanjeeda (Nimmo Mathuria) The heroine of the story has just completed her hospital scene. Sanjeeda walks across to where the other ladies are waiting. Playing Nimmo has been fun ''because I can relate to the character'', says Sanjeeda, adjusting her high ponytail. While she considers herself fortunate for being able to work with big names, she does realise she has been ''hand-picked by luck'' (we know she means Ekta Kapoor, don't we?). ''I know of people waiting endlessly with portfolios and I wish they could be as lucky as me,'' says Sanjeeda, who's acted in some South Indian films. ''I didn't plan to become an actor. I actually came to Mumbai to start my own dance institute and teach choreography for wedding sangeets. I remember thinking about different steps all the time. Even now, when I have time, I think of new steps.''
She's the bindaas lady - Kantaben - in the household. ''I play the role of a woman who says exactly what she feels and thinks. I am not bitchy and I have no pretences whatsoever,'' says Achrekar, adjusting her mogra-stringed gajra, minutes before her shoot. This is a Balaji soap, but Achrekar thinks: ''This is very different from a typical Balaji soap. It is down-to-earth, relatable. When I say it's different,'' Achrekar adds, ''I mean it is not one where you sit and predict the craftiness of characters or their long-pending woes. While it's far from predictable right now, let's just hope it doesn't move that way. A lot depends on the TRPs too!'' she smiles. You remember Achrekar from her role as Mrs.Wagle in Wagle Ki Duniya. ''I did all of 19 episodes for Wagle Ki Duniya and yet people remember me as part of it. Today we're on television every day and despite that people do not remember who's acting in what serial and who's been replaced by whom! The creative satisfaction back then remains unparalleled. Nowadays, I do my bit and go home without even thinking much about how I acted. It's more of a switch-on and switch-off situation.'' Sujata Mehta (Neeta Mathuria) She is Nimmo's fashion designer mother and a Page 3 wannabe. Although a socialite who has celebrities as customers at her boutique, Neeta still hasn't reached the high society parties she so dearly wishes to be invited to. Still, there is time. Playing a glamourous role isn't all that easy: ''I feel scared watching myself on TV, although I am getting offers I feel apprehensive about acting in dailies.'' Mehta's apprehensions do have a reason. ''Yateem harmed my career; later, an accident harmed my cheek which is why you will see this protrusion,'' she points to her face. And while you can continue watching Neeta run for those high society parties in Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka, she has other plans. ''I'm planning to launch my film, which is a dream project, Cheetkaar. I will be playing a schizophrenic in it. Watch out,'' she adds. Although in the scene we are watching, she's supposed to be by her husband's bedside, Mehta is dressed to perfection, not a strand out of place, the chiffon skirt flowing prettily. Despite a two-hour wait, Mehta is patient. ''That's what daily soaps are all about.'' |
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