With the lord's blessings
A widower, still smitten by his deceased wife, is coerced by family and friends to marry again, for himself as well as his children. Biwi no. 2 is the battered survivor of a bad marriage. A typical Mills and Boon premise, heavily Indianised, that's Punar Vivaah for you. It's a role into which the brooding six-footer Gurmeet Choudhary fits easily.
But then, as his fan following will assert, Gurmeet slips into every character as if it's tailor-made for him. He was Ram in a recent version of the Ramayana, and ended up marrying his onscreen Sita, Debina Bonnerjee, two years ago. From that he moved onto a serial called Geet'Hui Sabse Parayi, in which he played the angry young man. His decent dancing skills also helped him clinch the trophy in the last season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
Gurmeet, 28, is himself overwhelmed by his success. "It's the blessings of Shri Ram," he says. "Ramayana was a big break for me five years ago. People would even send me money as offerings to the lord. Many well-wishers feared I'd be typecast. I, however, knew I'd be able to break the mould."
When he was in class 2, Gurmeet had dreamt of being a film star. "I think I am very close to that dream today," he says, shyly. "After Jhalak..., there have been some offers. But I am in a successful serial now and am enjoying it, too. There will be a time I will move on." Do we see another Shah Rukh Khanesque journey in the offing?
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