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Television's pretty young things Priya Wal and Shweta Gulati seem to be enjoying every bit of their newfound fifteen minutes of fame. Priya, 21 and Shweta, 23 rule the primetime on Star One in the teenie-bopper flick, Remix.
For Delhi model-turned-actress Priya, acting wasn't the "career" in the beginning.
The statuesque brunette who flaunts fiery red hues and spiked hair as the tomboyish Anvesha in the popular teen show, is a Mayo College product who graduated in English Literature from I.P.College and was content modelling for TV commercials and ramp shows. "I was told that I was too tall to be on TV and mentally I wasn't prepared to be in films. You have to be 100 per cent geared up for a big step ahead like films, but TV is a cooler medium and I love it,"grins Priya.
Shweta, a commerce graduate from Mumbai's MCC College has been a call centre executive and a commercial model before she did TV shows for a year and half. "I did Shagun and Kya Yehi Hai Pyar (Star Plus) for some episodes but people have started associating me as Tia in Remix and I like it that way."
Priya was initially "shocked when I started doing Anvesha's role. Cutting my long tresses was depressing considering I had done so many hair ads. But I couldn't wear a wig and colouring my hair wasn't easy but I've received positive feedback for my hair. Now I find myself living that role and loving it too." For Shweta, playing the role of the snobbish Tia is "play-acting through and through. She's unreal for me but it's a character that has made me popular. So I love Tia."
After pack-up, Shweta and Priya prefer to "hangout with each other" they chorus in unison. So these on-screen rivals are actually off-screen buddies? Shweta says she likes spending time with the Remix "caste. They are a bunch of young people like me and we share lots of common interests, we even party together on Saturday nights after work." Puja confesses that it's tough for a "six-movies-a-week person" like her to "work 18-20 hours everyday and coming home just to sleep" isn't easy but the "creative satisfaction and the adulation makes it worth all the hard work. Add to that good friends like Shweta who only make it fun." After Remix, Priya would like to do "films sometime in the future" while Shweta is soon going to shoot for Jolly Mukherjee's new film.
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