TV's latest bahu By: Vickey Lalwani September 19, 2006
Gauri Nigudkar
A Marathi mulgi from Dombivli, Gauri Nigudkar, is all set to enter our drawing rooms. Gauri will play the protagonist in Sunjay Waddhwa's forthcoming daily Paraya Dhan, to be aired on Star One.
It has been written by Rekkha Modi, a show she had earlier conceptualised for Dheeraj Kumar's Creative Eye productions (the duo later had a fall-out and Kumar pitched her story to Zee as Betiyann).
Chemical reaction!
Talking from Jodhpur, where she is shooting, Gauri says that she never thought she would act in a TV serial one day. "I had acted in the National Award-winning film Uttarayan opposite Sharad Kelkar, but television was never on my mind. In fact, I wanted to become a chemistry professor. So when I got a call for Paraya Dhan, it came as a big surprise. So I decided to give it a shot."
Chemistry professor? Well, Gauri is a post graduate in organic chemistry from Somaiya College. "I completed my MSc this year. I was always fascinated with teaching, but destiny had other plans."
Filmi aspirations
As for how television happened, Gauri got a call from the production house Sphere Origins. "I was supposed to do another show for Waddhwa which I couldn't for personal reasons. I met Nilu at Sphere Origins, auditioned and got the role of Krishna, a vulnerable yet rational character like Lord Krishna," she reveals.
Gauri is not ruling out films as the next step. She says, "Let me concentrate on Paraya Dhan. I will cross that bridge when it comes."
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