Simply Simple
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Simple Kaul says she is happy to do a real-life kind of role in "Twinkle Beauty Parlour".
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PHOTO: ANU PUSHKARNA
GORGEOUS! Simple Kaul
Visiting Delhi on a short trip, Simple Kaul simply can't stop talking about life led in the city a few years ago. Hailing from Ghaziabad bordering the Capital city, Simple, now a familiar face on tele-serials, talks about her "camping days in a rented barsati in Lajpat Nagar", sharing it with a wannabe model.
"I used to do a show or two for Doordarshan then, a little bit of theatre with Syed Alam, some singing with a band called Prithvi, hoping everyday that something worthwhile will come my way," she recalls her salad days. On comprehending gradually that not Delhi but Mumbai is the prized land for a flourishing career in television, Simple says she took the flight of fancy with the single motive of "making it" in telly- town.
"I soon got on to doing a lot of modelling there and gradually got the chance to feature in soaps," she says.
Soon viewers began to recognise her, as Reema Gujral in "Yeh Meri Life Hai" on Sony TV and as Pam in "Shararat" on Star Plus, in Ekta Kapoor's "Kkusum", in "Sanya" on Hungama TV, and now as Sameera in "Twinkle Beauty Parlour" on SAB TV.
Mental state
"I am doing fine. I am happy now," is how she describes her mental state these days. Describing her latest tele-role, she says, "Sameera is a very young, glamorous Page 3 type girl. An unsuccessful model and an actress, she marries for money and ends up with a man twice her age. Gradually, she realises that her strong conviction that money matters in marriage and love can follow backfires and she is ready to rethink about her decision." Though not overtly complaining about the kind of roles that actors get to do in serials these days, Simple says she is "happy to do a real-life kind of role." Petite though she is, Simple has an attractive face, and an even better smile. So now that she is well established in Mumbai, is Bollywood too in her frame of dreams?
"I have not ruled out anything yet. Though TV today can give you what only films could have given an actor before, but still most of us have begun thinking of becoming an actor because of the big screen. So obviously, making it in Bollywood would certainly mean something to me," she explains her point, but cloaking well that desire in the heart to be seen finally arriving in Tinsel Town.
SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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