Evelyn Sharma, half-German, half-Indian, came to India searching for her roots. "With my dark hair and looks unlike most Germans, I grew up being mocked at. But in the '90s, when Bollywood became big in my country, I was suddenly this princess from the land of colours and mystique. Since I knew nothing about India, I came here to find out for myself what the country's all about," she says with a grin as she flips through a Hindi translation of a Samuel Beckett play at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Mumbai.
Other than discovering herself, Sharma also landed bit roles in Hindi movies. She then decided to enrol for a formal course in acting that could help her form a base in the industry. With her Hindi reading and speaking skills improving by the day, she hopes to tap into her network of friends from the industry to build a career in Bollywood. And she has already begun to fit in. In the school's empty corridors, she sails around dressed in a long skirt with a distinctively Indian print, humming Udi udi , the song from Guzaarish. Though Sharma grew up dancing to Hindi film tunes, the training in Bollywood dance, she claims, has made her skilled enough to be able to do the jhatkas and matkas without feeling awkward.
She reminds me of Dia Mirza (as far as beauty goes that's great BUT other than that this will be a minus cuz poor dia did never well).
See her ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lix6x49wtic
source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bollywoods-foreign-calling/808496/3
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