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Television
has suddenly turned into a happy hunting
ground for Bollywood misfits. After the
stupendous success of Ronit Roy, Apoorva
Agnihotri and Tisca Chopra, the latest to
join the telly bandwagon is Yukta Mookhey,
who will soon be seen in an adaptation of
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's novel, Gruhadaaha.
The former Miss World seems to carry
no baggage of her Bollywood days and has
a charm that makes you like her in an instant.
Yukta Mookhey spoke to Ananya
Sengupta about her career in films and
her dreams of tellydom.
Are you doing
Gruhadaaha?
Well, I am still negotiating!
Only if we could believe everything we read
in those papers! We are still negotiating.
So what made you
consider this offer?
First of all, this show is a
classic. It has a very woman oriented storyline
and a very strong character for me. Rakesh
had told me about this a year earlier. I
kept on telling him to make a film on the
story, but he stuck to his guns. He said
that "There's an innocence in your
eyes that is a rare thing for a person who
has been part of the film industry"
and this was flattering! I am very excited
about the role, and I hope evrything works
out well! But it's too early to say anything
now!
But
you are keen to do television...
Yes, I am! I have been ready
to do TV for some three years now, and I
had got great offers as well, but unfortunately,
I was committed to some movies then. My
producers felt that if I did TV then they
would have problems ditributing the films,
so I refused TV then. But now I want to
do TV, I have consciously not taken up any
films.
What kind of charcaters
do you want to do?
I want to play strong characters
and frankly speaking television is more
elevating as far as women are concerned.
Atleast here, the bahus don't shed their
clothes in the name of acting! Really, Bollywood
is a dirty place, it's really degrading.
Whenever I go out today, I see that people
are more excited about seeing Mihir than
a Shahrukh Khan. It is amazing to see the
reach and demand of television.
Were you depressed
at any point of time when you were doing roles
that didn't satisfy you?
That never happened because I am a very creative
person, I believe in moving on. And frankly
speaking, I always wanted to do something
that would inspire young minds. I want to
do my own chat show, something like Oprah
Winfrey Show. I didn't want to end up
doing sleazy roles. I am sad for those girls
who are so insecure about their talent that
they have to do these kind of things! But
that's how it is in the industry. Even fine
actors like Madhuri Dixit and Kajol had to
wait to get their first great role!
Didn't people
warn you not to try television at this point
in your career?
Quite the contrary. Everyone
who knows me knew that I wanted to do a
chat show of my own. They advised me that
this is the right time for me to do TV.
They said,"If you have made up your
mind, then don't wait." Anyways, I
feel that it is the film industry's loss
that they couldn't retain a good actress
like me!
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on 23 March 2006 8:29 pm
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