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Mouli Ganguly, who is now seen in Resham Dank on Star One talks to Yasmeen Faruqi about her favourite project, love life and more

Describe your role in Resham Dankh?
At present, all I can say is that she is a devoted and loving housewife, but keep watching and you will get to see a lot of emotion and drama.

Don't you think you should try different stuff apart from the good bahu or beti roles like you did in Kahin Kissi Roz and Sarrkarr too?
Actually, I had a done an action packed role in Sakshi, but it failed. Maybe viewers are not ready to watch women outside the traditional roles of a homemaker or breaker.

Amongst the various projects that you have done over the years, which is the closest to your heart?
That would be my role as Shaina in my debut serial Kahin Kissi Roz. I really enjoyed doing that project. It has also been my longest running serial.

Don't you think TV stars are overworked?
Unfortunately the general idea here seems to be making hay while the sun shines. Everybody just wants to earn that extra buck, this is a problem for people like me, who want some time for themselves.

Comment on your 'next to nothing' role in the Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai starrer Rain Coat?
Actually the role had depth, but it was kind of an in-between role for which the audience needed to think about the character to appreciate its meaning. I was presented as the opposite of Aishwarya's character, who like her, had a past, but had learnt to reconcile with life.

What about big roles in Bollywood?
Though I would not mind acting in them, my own inhibitions would prevent me from doing what is normally required to get the so-called big roles. And you know what I mean.

What kind of food stuff do you dig into?
Being a Bong, I like Bengali food, especially macher jhol.

Any love interest?
No, I went to a girls' college; hence interaction with the opposite sex was limited. Later when I started work, I had friends who were guys, but we would always go out in groups.

What do you do when you have some free time?
I am a voracious reader; I can read anything from serious autobiographies like Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth to Fredrick Forsyth's pulp fiction.

Rakeshh Paaul is on seventh heaven! After a year long break from television, the actor will soon be seen on Star One's Resham Dankh.

Making a comeback with JD's show makes the actor nostalgic. "Before taking a break from television I was doing Main Office Tere Aagan Ki and when I was approached for Resham Dankh I was very happy. I took it up, as I was very impressed when I heard the narration from Aatish Kapadia. Incidently, this is the first time Hats Off is doing a thriller, and it's my first non-comic role too," states Rakeshh.

Rakeshh essays the role of Aditya Balraj who is Rahil Azam long lost friend. He says, "I can't reveal much, but I play Rahil's college friend, and we bump into each other after a really long time," says Rakeshh.

His character will be on air from the 25 September. The actor promises that the audience is in for a major twist happening on the show.

Paaul Jr. will also be seen in The Comedy Show Ha Ha Ha on Star One itself. But says they are re-shooting some episodes, so that will be on air after a while.
We wonder what's the reason behind this instant success, may be adding in those extra h's or a's

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The sister-in-law (SIL) syndrome is as old as family and tradition have existed. The daughter is the darling of the house who is never wrong and even after marriage she is often seen spending time at her maika or mother's place, brewing trouble for her brothers' wives. But our tele serials go one step ahead and accommodate not just the daughter as a permanent fixture in the form of a chugal khor or problem creating nanand (sis-in-law) but her husband is a willing and happy-go-lucky ghar jamai.

Balaji Telefilms popularised this concept with Kyunki….and now with Kasamh Se, they have raised it to such a level that it seems almost mandatory to have a ghar-jamai in every serial. In Kyunki…, Gayatri chachi's (Kamalika Guha) daughter Sejal (Khyati) played the vampish sis-in-law to the hilt. As Kamalika puts it, "In fact when I went out, I used to have viewers asking me to send Sejal back to her sasural. On the sets we used to have fun poking at Khyati by asking her on whom she was going to eavesdrop today." Similarly Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki had sister Chaya returning home after her fight with her husband, only to end up poisoning her mother against the bhabhis.

Aditi Pratap plays Aditi bhaisa in the serial Saat Phere on Zee TV, where she stays at her mom's place with her husband Dheer Kunwarsa (Ashish Kapoor) and their son. Despite the protagonist Saloni (Rajshri Thakur) being portrayed as the epitome of goodness, Aditi bhaisa more often than not regards her brother's wife with suspicion. Sometimes the track veers towards her infidel, good-for-nothing and Casanova of a husband. Though Aditi Pratap defends the storyline by saying, "In order to avoid repetitiveness in the serial, different tracks have to be explored. It can be done only through involving relatives who are insiders and relevant to the story," in real life she does not conform to the idea as she affirms, "Never. I will not marry a person who will make us stay at my parents' place. But if my parents need any help from me in their old age then I will certainly be there with them."

According to Sunjoy Wadhwa, producer of Saat Phere, "There are hundreds of ghar - jamais in real life and they add an element of drama to the story. When there are more characters, different thought processes take place and are bound to clash with each other thereby providing a variety of angles to be explored." But Wadhwa assures that his next serial Saathi Re does not involve any such maika - sitting daughter.

Resham Dankh on Star One too depicts sister Poonam (Dimple Shah) with her free-loading husband Brijesh (Rajiv Mehta) and their vagabond son having a gala time at her brother Aditya Balraj's (Raahil Azam) expense. JD Majethia clarifies, "We include more characters in the serial so that it becomes more interesting. In Resham Dankh, Poonam and Brijesh are cheats and bankrupts who have swindled people of their money. Because he cannot forsake his sister, Aditya (Raahil) entertains their stay in his house."

Poonam Narula Goyal was the typical domineering sis-in-law Nivedi in Kasauti Zindagi Ki on Star Plus who stayed at her maike with her deceitful husband
and also had a stake in the family business and competed with her brother and protagonist Anurag Basu in administrative matters and financial share.

Another SIL who not only stays with her brother Jay Walia (Ram Kapoor) along with her grown up children but demands non-existing rights too is Jigyasaa (Ashvini Kalsekar) of Kasamh Se on Zee TV. For some unknown reasons, Jigyasaa's estranged husband and mother-in-law too stay with them enjoying the generosity and luxury of the Walia household. The track also reveals Jigyasa and her son, besides her husband separately plotting and scheming to strip Mr.Walia of his wealth. The idea of portraying outsiders, like friends, and giving them so much importance would not be in keeping with the Indian mindset since viewers identify with the characters and relate to the kith and kin perception. "An outsider interfering in family matters would never be accepted by the viewers, hence the addition of wily, wicked betis, buas, mausis, jamais and chachajis," feels Ashvini Kalsekar.

Writer Rekkha Modi, the well-known writer, who has penned serials like Kyunki….., etc. for Ekta Kapoor, insists that in the forthcoming serial Parayaa Dhan on Star One which is her first production, she has not used any such element as she feels, "Look at Tulsi, Parvati, Prerna ……. when there is one positive character there should be another negative one to offset the story line. Basically, earlier when I was writing for other producers, I had to comply with their ideas and drama plots. But now after turning producer myself with my personally conceived show Betiyaan, I have used only natural characters whom people can identify with and there is no such scheming daughter/ sister in the house. This SIL syndrome has become monotonous."

Even though our country has seen the emergence of nuclear families, tellywood's mindset has not progressed beyond watching a good-for-nothing SIL camped at her maika with her hubby tagged along.

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