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Maid in Mumbai
After playing a man who seduces his maid on screen, Ashish Kapoor is finding it difficult to find domestic help in real life
Sapana Patil Poojary
Ashish Kapoor is faced by a strange predicament. His reel life escapades are disrupting his real life. Ashish, plays Dheer in Saat Phere, a married man who cheats on his wife, by having an affair with his maidservant. Apparently, his on-screen philandering is preventing him from getting domestic help, as maids are wary of taking up a job at his bachelor's pad.
Ashish says, "Well, I guess it's my character in Saat Phere which is scaring away women from working at my house. The track that showed me having an affair with my maid went on for a long time. All the maids must have watched it."
But the actor is faced with mixed emotions. "On the one hand I feel good about my serial being watched so widely, but on the other, I am feeling bad about my Casanova image being etched in their minds. It's both funny and stupid. Now I have come to realise the importance of playing a positive character. I hope this doesn't go on for long otherwise I will be left doing all household chores by myself," he says.
Director of Saat Phere, Vijay Pande says, "Audience sometimes find it difficult to differentiate between fiction and real life. Characters do certain things or behave in a certain manner, to spice up the serial. It does not necessarily extend to their real lives. Audiences should realise that actors have a life beyond what they portray in serials. In the several years that I've spent in this field, I have come across actors telling me about how their on-screen characters are taken too seriously. I tell them to take it as a compliment."
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