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Anuj Sawhney on "Naina" and his future plans
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ROLES WANTED Anuj Sawhney
Actor Anuj Sawhney says he doesn't mind playing second fiddle. Starting his career with a multi-starrer, Nayee Padosan, Anuj followed it up with a two-hero film, Fun2sshhh. He is now playing support to Urmila Matondkar in Naina, a supernatural thriller being touted as Urmila's film. "I don't have a film background. Had I started with a solo-hero subject, and the film failed at the box office, I would have been written off by now. It has happened with many wannabe stars. So I decided to take calculated risks. I signed with a big banner so that the film gets released, and despite four heroes, the subject of Nayee Padosan was such that I had the opportunity to make my presence felt. Unfortunately, Fun2sshhh didn't turn out on screen the way we saw it on paper."
Talking about Naina, Anuj says he is playing the role of a psychiatrist, Sameer Patel, who treats Naina, played by Urmila. "When Naina gets her eyesight back, she doesn't know how to cope with the world. Sameer helps her by becoming her anchor."
Anuj is following this up with another supporting act in Kalpana Lajmi's Chingari where Sushmita Sen is playing the title role of a prostitute. He smiles, "Here my role is much more crucial. The film was earlier supposed to be called The Postman and the Prostitute, as I am playing the role of the postman who raises his voice against prostitution in a Bihar village and eventually falls in love with a prostitute, Chingari. The film is based on a story by Bhupen Hazarika."
As for Brides Wanted, the first film to revolve around the character he is playing, it is getting delayed. "Destiny also plays its part. There was problem with Waheedaji's dates. Hopefully, the film will get released this June."
As a well-educated youth, who has set goals like being a film-writer by 2008 and a director by 2011, Anuj says talent is a must, but not the only criterion in the film industry. "I have seen talented young men packed in kothri-like accommodation in Mumbai. You have to be patient. I have refused major banners because I knew there was not much scope for me in those scripts. Content is much more important than form."
ANUJ KUMAR
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