'I won't wear Bikini like mom'

'I won't wear Bikini like mom'
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 13:47 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
by Subhash K Jha

It took her glamorous legendary mother quite a long time to go from Satyajit Ray to a glamorous double role in Shakti Samanta's An Evening In Paris.

But Sharmila's sweet-tempered daughter Soha Ali Khan is already there in less than a year. She plays a double role in Aparna Sen's next.

"And the best part is, mom too is part of the film. So it will be great fun to shoot. It will also be my first film with a female director, and I'm really looking forward to being directed by a woman."

When last in Kolkata for a film Soha was bathed in raves for her performance as the stifled bride in a feudal household in Rituparno Ghosh's Antar Mahal. And she had a lot of very difficult explicit scenes with Jackie Shroff.

"They may look difficult to the spectator. But they weren't that tough to do. Rituda showed me exactly what to do. My co-star Jackie was far more nervous and embarrassed than I was. He told my mother he'd never be able to do those scenes if she was around on the sets. ...We took every precaution.

Everyone except the immediate crew and cast was ordered out of the sets. Rituda took good care of me.It didn't seem tough. "

Soha makes no bones about her aspirations as an actor. "I'm not too old in the industry, still finding my way around. I can't say whether I'm cut out for Shaadi No 1 or Antar Mahal. Ideally I'd like to both kinds of cinema, just like my mom did. There're some things I won't be comfortable doing."

She smilingly reveals how her mom told her to fight off the minimal-clothes menace.

"She told me that if producers want me to get into a bikini just because she did so once, I'm supposed to say, 'My mom made some mistakes. I won't repeat them.' There are some things which I don't need to be told NOT to do, just as I've my own list of dos."

She sighs, "Sometimes I feel I belong to another era. That's when Antar Mahal seems like my cup of tea. Then again I want to do a young contemporary girl's roles, because that's what I'm in real life. In my Rang De Basanti I played a young college-going girl. I like that. "
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