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The lovable bad girl
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She has made it big as a villain on small screen. Meet Urvashi Dholakia
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As a kid I used to tell my mother I don't want to watch television, I want to be in it
STARTING YOUNG Urvashi Dholakia
Some say it's in her eyes, others say it's her wry smile and some others say it's her mannerisms that make Urvashi Dholakia better known as Komolika of "Kasauti Zindagi Kay", the popular villain of the small screen. Interestingly, Urvashi herself doesn't know why she was chosen to play the character. "Ask Ektaa (Kapoor) what made her think that I ooze so much negativity that she made me a cult figure. Even her mother (Shobha Kapoor) didn't have the confidence, but she had to relent to her daughter's persistence," says Urvashi who started her career as a child artiste
"As a kid I used to tell my mother I don't want to watch television, I want to be on it." At the age of six, she made her debut in Shri Adhikari Brothers' (SAB) Waqt Ki Raftar. "I used to go to the sets from school and Adhikari sir would tell me to go back and do my homework as soon as my shot was over. Apart from studies, I did everything else at school," she laughs. "If I go back to studies I would fare really well because I can memorise my dialogues in one reading."
Urvashi is working again with SAB in their latest offering on Sony, Rishton Ki Dor. She plays Noinika, the wife of an idealistic man, who wants to rise the social ladder, any which way. "Though it's negative, it is not an extension of Komolika. While Komolika spews venom without a reason, here there is one. Noinika is materialistic and emotionless because she has had a deprived childhood. And Noinika doesn't dress gaudily," she smiles. Talking about Komolika's heavy make-up, Urvashi says it was again Ektaa's choice. "She described to me the look and I just had to portray it. Even heroines sport loud make-up these days. The only difference is that those playing negative roles have to look garish in every shot. Anyway, I always loved to look dressed up, even as a child. When I was just three, I used to take out the lipstick from my mother's vanity case and apply it."
Things happened fast in Urvashi's life. At 19, when on the one hand she was being appreciated for her work in serials such as Dekh Bhai Dekh, she had a broken marriage and twins to fend for. "I worked like crazy, sometimes for 36 hours at a stretch. I did everything to fulfil the role of a single parent. Now I want to take a break to spend time with my kids and parents."
Playing a negative character for long says Urvashi doesn't in anyway affect her personal life. "I leave Komolika behind once I am out of the sets." And how do her kids react? "Oh! They love it. Today's kids are so intelligent they already know what's going to happen next." She adds, "All this talk of negative impact on children is nonsense. There are far too many shady things happening in real life than we see on screen."
About the item number she did in Mudda, Urvashi says that was out of goodwill. "Right now I am not interested in films, but can't say about the future."
ANUJ KUMAR
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