Little star
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Ayesha, who recently won the Best Supporting Artiste award at IIFA, talks about life after `Black'
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PHOTO: K. GOPINATHAN
JUST THE SAME Ayesha Kapur: `For all my friends, I'm simply Ayesha'
If you catch Ayesha Kapur on the farm, she will start talking about her horses Estigon and Opaline passionately.
Standing beside the 600-kg animals, she pats them as if they were puppies.
Ayesha has just returned from Dubai, after receiving the IIFA Award for the Best Supporting Artiste for her role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black.
"It was a great experience and a lot of fun. But I was nervous when I had to perform with Amitabh," she says of the mega event.
This is the seventh award she has received for the role of the young Michelle McNally, a deaf, mute and blind girl. She has won the BBC Asian Network Award, Pogo award, Stardust Award, Screen, Apsara and Zee Cine Award.
And they all proudly sit on the shelf at her home in Auroville, near Pondicherry.
On what it is to be a star and be recognised, Ayesha matter-of-factly says that she is known more in North India.
"In Pondicherry, I am like any other girl. Even among my friends who have seen the movie, I am just Ayesha." Talking about her daughter's achievements, Jacqueline Kapur says: "Post-Black, Ayesha is a star but we don't treat her like one at home. It feels great that she has won many awards and I am proud of her."
Her father Dilip Kapur was first reluctant to let her act because he wanted Ayesha to concentrate on her studies. "He doesn't want me to do too many films. If I get a good role then may be I might take a short break from school. I want to go to America to study," says Ayesha.
The Class VI student likes English and art and craft, reads fantasies and writes short stories. "I write stories about people and happenings," she adds. .
"The film has taught me to understand the problems of differently-abled children. I spend some time with such children. One of them, Lakshmi, who is visually impaired, is my good friend. I bring Lakshmi and her friends to the riding school and let them touch the horses," says Ayesha.
DEEPA H. RAMAKRISHNAN
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