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Mouli: TV stars are ignored!
TV actors get "step-motherly treatment" from Bollywood, complains Mouli Ganguly.
The star of Kahin Kissi Roz acted also in Rituparno Ghosh's Raincoat but says that her performance didn't count for much because "it's not easy for TV actors to enter the film industry."
"If you're OK with the roles of sisters, aunts and such, then being on TV might help," Mouli said, "But it's not the same if you want to play a key role."
Mouli will be seen playing a role, presumably neither aunt nor sister, in the short film 68 pages. The movie is a telling of the stories of five HIV positive individuals. She will also be seen in the Bollywood movie, It's a Man's World, out next year.
Famous for playing Shaina Sikand in the Ekta Serial Kahin Kissi Roz, she has also acted in Sarrkar and Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam and Saakshi.
While she has a problem with the way Bollywood treats TV stars, she has no problem with TV work and feels that once the audience starts associating an actor with a character, it pays off in the long run.
"I feel this is a positive thing to some extent since that way people start recognizing you. It gives identity to an actor," she said.
"However, one should know when to move out of that image. Its important to keep reinventing yourself and that'll only happen when you don't let yourself get typecast in one kind of roles for a long time," she added.
Mouli was completely out of the radar for one year, when she returned with "Aathva Vachan" on Sony entertainment television. She is a part of the fourth season of celebrity reality dance show "Nach Baliye", where she has participated with her beau Mazher.
In "Aathva Vachan", a show about the bond between two sisters - one of whom is mentally unstable, Mouli plays the elder sister. She is being appreciated for her role.
"I accepted the show since I had already taken a year's break. Also, the role was short and sweet. I liked my character especially the bond between the two sisters. If I was the audience, I would love to see a show like this," Mouli said.
Besides, Mouli is also enjoying her stint on "Nach Baliye 4", which is her first reality show. She and her partner Mazher are receiving rave reviews from the judges for their performances.
"It's something very new. What excites me is that on the same show I get to wear so many moods, looks and attitudes. I can't do that in my soaps," Mouli said.
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TV actors get "step-motherly treatment" from Bollywood, complains Mouli Ganguly.
The star of Kahin Kissi Roz acted also in Rituparno Ghosh's Raincoat but says that her performance didn't count for much because "it's not easy for TV actors to enter the film industry."
"If you're OK with the roles of sisters, aunts and such, then being on TV might help," Mouli said, "But it's not the same if you want to play a key role."
Mouli will be seen playing a role, presumably neither aunt nor sister, in the short film 68 pages. The movie is a telling of the stories of five HIV positive individuals. She will also be seen in the Bollywood movie, It's a Man's World, out next year.
Famous for playing Shaina Sikand in the Ekta Serial Kahin Kissi Roz, she has also acted in Sarrkar and Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam and Saakshi.
While she has a problem with the way Bollywood treats TV stars, she has no problem with TV work and feels that once the audience starts associating an actor with a character, it pays off in the long run.
"I feel this is a positive thing to some extent since that way people start recognizing you. It gives identity to an actor," she said.
"However, one should know when to move out of that image. Its important to keep reinventing yourself and that'll only happen when you don't let yourself get typecast in one kind of roles for a long time," she added.
Mouli was completely out of the radar for one year, when she returned with "Aathva Vachan" on Sony entertainment television. She is a part of the fourth season of celebrity reality dance show "Nach Baliye", where she has participated with her beau Mazher.
In "Aathva Vachan", a show about the bond between two sisters - one of whom is mentally unstable, Mouli plays the elder sister. She is being appreciated for her role.
"I accepted the show since I had already taken a year's break. Also, the role was short and sweet. I liked my character especially the bond between the two sisters. If I was the audience, I would love to see a show like this," Mouli said.
Besides, Mouli is also enjoying her stint on "Nach Baliye 4", which is her first reality show. She and her partner Mazher are receiving rave reviews from the judges for their performances.
"It's something very new. What excites me is that on the same show I get to wear so many moods, looks and attitudes. I can't do that in my soaps," Mouli said.
http://www.indya.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2008/November/News_20081111_56
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