Posted:
14 years ago
New Generation Bollywood: Ayesha Kapoor
The young actress who impressed us so much in the role of the young Michelle McNally in Black
with Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherji, for which she won a Best
Supporting Actress award, is back in her second big movie role, Sikander, and she's still only fourteen.
Set amidst the turbulence of the political situation in Kashmir, Sikander
is a tragedy that stars a young and impressive Parzan Dastur in the
pivotal role and also features the actor currently on a high in his
career, R Madhavan. How does Ayesha feel about her new role? "When I
was offered the role for Sikandar, I was extremely excited because I had not done a film for so long," she explains, "After shooting Black,
I was at home and continuing the usual routine; going to school, riding
my beautiful horses and being just me. Even now, I don't know how I got
into the movie world. I have never had any acting classes or auditions
in my life. Some people may call it destiny."
Sikander
was premiered at the 7th Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles and is set
to hit the festival circuit whilst waiting for a release date in India,
hampered by the current distribution dispute. The director Piyush Jha
says the whole movie was filmed in beautiful Kashmir. "We were there
for about two months," he explains, "The ground work took us about
10-15 days to complete and we shot for 35 days. We faced no problems at
all. The locals were very welcoming and hospitable and made us feel
very comfortable. They want more cinema crews to shoot movies in their
beautiful land."
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