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Minissha Lamba plays an interesting cameo in Madhur Bhandarkar's "Corporate"
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BIG BREAKMinissha Lamba plays a naοve girl in "Corporate"
Minissha Lamba came across as a whiff of fresh air in Shujit 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 strange for an actor to be doing the lead in her 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 part of it. I know Madhur as a director to whom the characters are more important than the whole film. So when he called me up to read the script of the film, 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 naive and takes things at face value. What happens to her when she is exposed to the darker side of the otherwise glamorous corporate world constitutes her role.
Madhur, Minissha asserts, didn't bind her to any acting protocol. "He gave me full freedom to play a simple-minded new recruit. He just gave me a few tips."
"My role has a positive side to it," says Minissha who has a couple more films in her kitty. She says: "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 the country that others hate. She is an extremist that way. In Honey Moon Travels Private Limited, I am one of the couples on a honeymoon to Goa. Abhay Deol is paired with me in it."
RANA SIDDIQUI
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