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In the spotlight

Post `Sarkar,' the film industry has discovered Kay Kay Menon in a new light

THE RIGHT CUE Kay Kay Menon is basking under the glow of recent success PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA

`Deewar,' `Hazaron Khwahishen,' `Aisi' and `Sarkar,' Kay Kay is finally born at 33. Why? His gestation period was marred by stereotypes. "Once after speaking to a filmmaker for half-an-hour in chaste Hindi, he asked me my name. I said Kay Kay Menon. He shot back can you speak Hindi?" That day I dropped my surname and decided to make way as Kay Kay only. "It's only recently that the media has discovered my surname again."

Someone who is on the stage since "the age of nine," Kay Kay studied to be an advertisement professional to "conform to the societal rules" but soon became "a pauper by choice" doing theatre and the film that describes jinx - `Paanch.' With a smile that conceals much more than it reveals, he says, "The `Paanch' fiasco made me realise how to be dispassionately passionate about my work. Before `Deewar' I was considered a soft intelligent face, after `Sarkar,' I have been called a maniac with lean mean looks. In the industry the perception changes every minute. After all, cinema is the most disorganised form of art where there are no constants, only variables."

Kay Kay has an interesting line up ahead. Coming soon is `Dansh' with Sonali Kulkarni. Then he has thrillers in the form of `Highway 203' and `Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina' and a Chandan Arora comedy, `Main Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

ANUJ KUMAR

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