| Prachi Desai |
Riding on the success of Rock On!!, Prachi Desai is currently dubbing for her next film Life Partner which also stars Tusshar Kapoor, Govinda, Fardeen Khan and Genelia D'Souza. We spoke to this chirpy actress, who was some time back TV's favourite bahu...
You are dubbing for the Abbas-Mustan-produced comedy Life Partner. Will Prachi Desai — the princess of pain — be able to do comedy?
I am fortunate Life Partner is a comedy; and a totally different role for me because I have been playing only sober and serious roles till now. My hero in the film, Tusshar, is the king of comedy after Golmaal and Golmaal Returns. Fardeen has also done great in comedy and as for Govinda, nobody can question his comic talent. Genelia too has done Masti and Mera Baap Pehle Aap earlier.... So I'm the only one in the film's cast who is new to comedy. The guys were doing their fun bit whereas my character brings in some emotions and reality to the film.
Once again, after Kasamh Se and Rock On!!, you are playing a married girl...
The film is about friends and then moves on to their married life. It is about young people who eventually get married and the situations they face after marriage.
When will you get to play an unmarried girl of your age?
I can't really tell you how sick I'm of playing a wife. Every story that is narrated to me comes with a wife tag (laughs). I'm doing a film that is not officially announced yet that has no wife angle and I'm absolutely single and young in the film.
Are you talking about Once Upon A Time In Mumbai where you are cast opposite Emraan Hashmi? What is the film about?
Once Upon A Time In Mumbai is about gangsters. My first three films are totally different from each other — Rock On!! was a contemporary young film and the whole set-up was different. After that I'm doing a comedy, Life Partner. And now I'm doing something which is not a dark film but a film based in the 1980s.
Keeping in mind Emraan's serial kisser reputation, are you open to doing a kissing scene in Once Upon A Time In Mumbai?
I don't know why people keep asking me that (laughs). The question does not arise. I have always been clear that I wouldn't do something that I'm not comfortable with.
Why did you refuse Mahesh Bhatt's Jashn?
After the release of Rock On!!, I started shooting for Life Partner and finished my first schedule with them. Life Partner had a very scattered schedule — we went to Cape Town, Panvel and Mumbai while a schedule in Gujarat got cancelled. Unfortunately, Jashn's schedule was at one go; and my dates for the Cape Town schedule of Life Partner were clashing with it. So obviously I could not do it. I have been such a fan of the music in Bhatt films and was so excited that I would be the face of some lovely music... but I'm sure I'll get another chance.
Will you ever come back to television now?
Whatever I was doing on television was satisfying and I was happy with it. I love TV but at the moment I'm not looking at coming back. I do not know what happens in the future. It totally depends on how my career shapes up in films.
But are you happy you shifted from TV to films?
I am happy these three films have given me a chance to do something different because I was doing the same thing on television for a long time. Now with every film I get a new look and a different character.
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