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Photo: Anu Pushkarna.
A writer too... Vani Tripathi in New Delhi.
A HURRICANE, pro-active, prolific are the attributes that Vani Tripathi, the protagonist of film Dil Se Pooch Kidhar Jaana Hai dedicates to herself. Unlike other children of her age, she used to request her parents that she should be sent to school. So she was admitted to school when she was three. At eight, she worked in major plays. By the time she reached 13, she finished reading Dickens, Thomas Hardy and other such novelists. And that's why she didn't choose literature in her graduation at Hindu College. She preferred psychology and political science. And having worked with the likes of Ebrahim Alkazi, Mahesh Bhatt, B.V. Karnath as an `actor teacher' in National School of Drama, and with directors like Ramesh Sippy, Aziz Mirza, Kundan Shah and Tanuja Chandra, etc, she thinks she has crossed major hurdles in her way to becoming a thinking actress.
And hence, she believes that in her role of a child woman and a prostitute in this film, she is able to live up to those shades that demanded a "wholesome approach". In the film, she plays a simple girl who gets separated from her beloved and meets him after a gap of 10 years, as a prostitute, while becomes an inspector by then. The film, directed by debutant Shrirang Ram Chandra Dhawale, an NSD product and a National Award winner for Marathi film Pudcha Paol is set against socio-political scenario in Mumbai from 1993 to 2005.
Feeling Quenched
Says this actress, whom you might have seen in Tanuja Chandra's Dushman, "This is a content-driven film which asks pertinent questions as why am I a victim when two people are fighting? Is my existence like a thin air that doesn't matter? And if my existence means nothing to them, I have got to tell them that I exist. And that's why my character chooses a path that makes people realise her significance. She believes that if I don't live life, life would leave me. But there is no anger in her. She does not turn into a daku rani. Rather she feels empowered and so, quenched."
And after this long description of her character, she seems feeling quenched too, not only because she has lived a role that is close to the real lives but also because she has also turned executive producer of the film.
"I have mounted the team. And we have divided the music into four categories; sufiana kalam sung by Kailash Kher, natiya qawwali by Sabri Brothers, romantic melodies by Abhijeet and classical by Shreya Ghoshal," she informs. A month-long shooting of the film yet remains.
And there is more to this freelance journalist. She has completed one book on a relationship between a child and Alzheimer patient and writing short stories for children.
Now ask her heart where it actually wants to go?
RANA SIDDIQUI
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