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Love... the Ghar, Ghar way
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S.M. YASIR speaks to Sweta Keswani, the small screen vamp now looking to corner glory on the big screen.
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Photos: Rajeev Bhatt.
SHE IS the conniving lady whose smirks we all have seen in "Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki". That raising of the brow and the rolling of the eyes that she made her very own in "Des Main Nikla Hoga Chaand" saw many classifying her as evil's new face. Not many, of course remember that she can make things nice and cool as well. Yes, she is the same Sweta Keswani who gave the icing to the Kwality Walls advertisement and sent your pulse racing with the Opel Corsa act.
Things however are getting hotter by the minute for her as she readies herself for the bigger screen with Rajat Mukherjee's "Love in Nepal". "It is a plot driven film where I play the role of a vivacious and tomboyish girl who is close to Sonu. Sonu is her boss and Fllora is Sonu's boss," she reveals.
Sounds a little uncharacteristic, doesn't it? But this is not the first time that she has steered past her vamp moorings. For the record she has done more positive roles than negative. In fact she started out with "Café 18", followed it up with "Tara" and others, all of which saw her without the elements of noir.
"I like to do interesting roles, roles that have various shades, that have scope for high performance and give me an adrenalin-rush," she informs before revealing that films like "Monsoon Wedding" and "Elizabeth" fall in that category. Few may like to translate that "rush" into experimentation. She is certainly one of them. No wonder then, she also did 62 episodes of "Say Cheese" as a video jockey.
Rest assured she is definitely not going to be the song and dance type actress running around trees. Having said that, it's worth mentioning that seven years of Kathak and a year at Shiamak Davar's dance-workshop, that she attended, would be of much help in case she decides to do so.
Coming to the point of comparisons between the celluloid world and the world of the idiot box, she believes that films depend upon directors, whereas serials depend on channels. Besides, one needs to shoot more scenes per day for a serial than for a film. But in the end it's the performance that matters. Let's just hope that the tinsel town doesn't need her to say cheese to present a smiling face after the release of "Love in Nepal".
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