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New recruit

Minissha Lamba plays an interesting cameo role in Madhur Bhandarkar's Corporate

PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA

BIG BREAK Minissha Lamba plays a na‹ve girl in the film

Minissha Lamba came across as a whiff of fresh air in Shoojit Sircar's Yahan opposite Jimmy Shergill. She played the lead — a Kashmiri girl who falls in love with an Indian Army captain.

The film and Minissha's work in it received critical acclaim. This commerce graduate, who has been a model, has a cameo role in Madhur Bhandarkar's Corporate. Isn't it pretty strange for an actor to be doing the lead in the debut film and a cameo in the second one? But Minissha has no regrets. She reasons: "When I saw Page 3, I loved it and wished that I could be a part of it. I know Madhur as a director whose characters are more important than the whole film. So when he called me up for reading the script of the film before deciding on his offer of doing a cameo, I couldn't refuse."

Minissha plays a new recruit in the film who is "full of idealism and enthusiasm and is a real go getter. At the same time, she is very naive who believes things on their face value. What happens to her when she is exposed to the darker side of the otherwise glamorous corporate world" is what constitutes her role.

Madhur, Minissha asserts, didn't bind her in any acting protocols. "He gave me full freedom to play a simple-minded new recruit. He just gave me some tips that gave direction to my idea of this role."

"My role also has a positive side to it," says Minissha who has a couple of more films in her kitty. She shares: "In Anthony Kaun Hai that also stars Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi, I play a fun-loving girl opposite Arshad. It is a comic thriller. In Rocky by Shyam Bajaj I am an NRI girl who travels to India and loves everything about India that others hate. She is an extremist that way. In Honey Moon Travels Private Limited, I am one of the couples on their honeymoon to Goa. Abhay Deol is opposite me in it."

RANA SIDDIQUI

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