Time for a young look
RANA SIDDIQUI
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An international look is what excites Tanishaa about "Neal-n-Nikki" that kisses the silver screen this Friday.
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YOUTH TIME FUN TIME Tanishaa thinks it is the right age to perform such audacious roles as in "Neal-n-Nikki".
Tanishaa's debut film "Ssshhh" lived up to its title. It came and went silently. Though the film almost cost her her life. While shooting she fell from a high mountain as the driver lost control over the car she was travelling in. She suffered a severe brain injury and was confined to the hospital for over a month with restrictions on movement in the water and under the sun. But Tanishaa had already given her dates to the director.
"Despite strict instructions of the doctor, I did everything that I wasn't supposed to, running all the time under the sun and near the beach. It aggravated my condition and I spent more days in the hospital. My mom had the toughest time. She was sure I wasn't going to live," recalls Tanishaa who attributes her long absence from the film world to her `not-so-good' health. Now, she is back in full swing with "Neal-n-Nikki" hitting the silver screen this Friday. With a complete makeover - in looks and confidence, in experience and intellect too. She is more calculating in her answers and takes time in opening up despite being media-savvy.
What may attract you to this kid sister of Kajol is the child-like chuckle in her voice and a youthful approach. Though mom Tanuja finds her "more serious and a kitchen bug who can cook wonderful dishes", Tanishaa differs. "I am quiet-natured but not serious. If I had been, I wouldn't have done `Neal-n-Nikki'," she quips. For the role of a college mate of Neal, played by Uday Chopra, Tanishaa was given five months' training by the director Arjun Sablok to get into the skin of the character.
A character who is "naughty, impulsive and intriguing", as she defines it. "It is about boys and girls who live a life of their own in bigger cities. They have an identity of their own. I am given an international look in the film. I am playing Nikki, Neal's friend who buys his idea of having fun before marriage and hence helps him with friendship with many girls of his choice," Tanishaa explains. A comeback with a new look that demands more of skin exposure than talent is not what she is bothered about.
"I am a Punjabi, and in Punjabi Nikki means Tiny. God has made me live up to my name in this film. I am five feet and nothing," laughs Tanishaa, saying she had a chance to experiment with colourful clothes by Sanjeev Moolchandani which match with none of her jewellery. "I have a casual approach to life. I wear anything, be it a gypsy skirt or a short top. I never care to match them with accessories or jewellery in the film."
No problem
This student of Media and Communications from a University in South Wales, muses, "I am young. Now I can afford to do this kind of a film. I can't do it after a certain age. Though men are always at ease in the film industry, it is not so friendly to its womenfolk."
For Tanishaa the choice of a course in media "was for personal growth". She reasons, "I didn't think that if I don't succeed in films I'll have my education to fall back on. Education helps in personal growth while intelligence comes only though experience. Look at Kad (Kajol). She is less educated but more intelligent than I am!" For now, she counts not signing any film as an intelligent move, as she would like to gauge the public pulse before taking another "bold" step!
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