| While Manasi Salvi has been donning black robes in Sahara One's Sati, the actress is hardly fond of the shade. However, she has a fixation for blue tones and claims to have a bunch of quirky rituals.
Resorting to a blue dupatta on the first day of her shoot for her shows is just one of them.
Says Salvi, "When I sign my shows, I make it clear to the production house that I wear a blue attire for the first shot. As Sati's theme and storyline didn't permit me to do so, I went for a mock shot with a blue dupatta. In fact, when I had debuted with Aashirvad, I had worn a blue salwar kameez and later on, I won lot of appreciation."
School days
Ask her about the logic behind this, Salvi recounts, "Since my high school days, I have been closely following the ritual. It all began when my tenth standard results were fantastic.
On the day the results were declared, I had worn blue clothes. Be it my graduation day or the first day at work, I have always picked up blue clothes from my wardrobe. The colour blue infuses positive energy and it eventually gives me success in whatever I pursue."
Hubby blues
The actress' ritualistic fervour has taken a toll on her husband director Hemant Prabhu. While the walls of her apartment have been painted in blue, the upholstery and even crockery have the same hue. "My husband keeps complaining all the time.
In fact, he has barred me from buying him any more clothes. I always land up picking shirts and trousers in blue. Even the first sari that I had worn on my wedding day was blue. So you can understand," she says.
Although hubby Prabhu is hell-bent on having objects in white around, wife Salvi is yet to give the green signal. "His favourite colour is white. But he needs to understand that I rock because blue rocks. So no room for white."
Fighting darkness
On her other daily show, Viraasat, she has been donning her lucky colour. If given a chance, she would want to change the colour palette of her robes on Sati, too.
"In Sati, I play an oppressed third-year law student who has been gang-raped and denied justice. Our scriptwriter Kamlesh Pandey justifies the black colour code as, 'andhere se larne ki shakti andher se aati hai (darkness can root out dark elements)'. So I can't help it," she sighs |
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