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Little delight of Veer-Zaara
Divya Dutta with Pretty Zinta
WHEN DIVYA Dutta was a child she broke her bones while riding a horse. After this experience, she stopped horse riding but she never stopped doing the role that she considered "endearing". Her role of Sabbu in Veer Zaara is one of them. "This is one of the most endearing roles I have played so far. Though it is not significantly big yet what matters to me is the Yash Chopra tag," beams Divya Dutta in New Delhi on a stopover. "I would have loved to speak about the role in this film but I am under contract," she expresses her inability.
Though Divya made a notable debut in Suraksha in 1995 with Monica Bedi but she got this role after lots of grilling through Stardust Talent Hunt in 1994 in which she was "selected among 40,000 from all over India," she informs.
After Suraksha we saw her in almost all films in small roles, be it Jiski Topi Uska Sar, Veergati, Ram Aur Shyam, Sur, Chote Sarkar, Daava and so on. "It happens when you join Hindi film industry without a godfather. I got stuck in multi-starrers but after I worked in Daava opposite Naseeruddin Shah people noticed me and I got Train to Pakistan. It was post Kadam (a serial in Sahara TV) that directors like Mahesh Manjrekar and others started approaching with tailor-made roles. Now I don't go to anyone, people come to me. That's the result of nine years of struggle," says a happy Divya.
Now you will see this English literature graduate from Punjab University partly as Jhansi Ki Rani and partly as a teacher in Shobha Yatra, Vijender Ghatge's directorial debut in which she has done horse riding and sword fighting too. "But here horses were trained. They act when director commands `action'. They would start galloping before I would pull their strings. And stop on the word `cut'. It was shocking". This film is more about an internal conflict of a teacher who portrays Jhani Ki Rani before her students and invariably compares herself to her in her personal life. "This film is dealt with intellectually," she says.
While she plays Lolita in Dubai Return, a comedy film, a lead role of Gudiya is awaiting shooting in December. "I am on a high playing this real life character same as I was while doing Netaji for which I met surviving family members of Subash Chandra Bose."
RANA SIDDIQUI
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