Time for a young look
RANA SIDDIQUI
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An international look is what excites Tanishaa about `Neal-n-Nikki.'
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FUN TIME: Tanishaa thinks it is the right age to perform 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 life. While shooting she fell from a 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. Tanishaa 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.' 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.
For the role of a college mate of Neal, played by Uday Chopra, Tanishaa was given five months' training by director Arjun Sablok.
An international look
"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."
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