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Gul Panag plays a nagging housewife in “Manorama Six Feet Under” released this Friday. RANA SIDDIQUI speaks to her
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Choice roles Gul Panag did four films after “Dor” but none was released
Gul Panag may have won the Femina Miss India-Universe crown way back in 1999, but she still seems to be reeling under its spell. Though she attempts to be polite and friendly, a tinge of arrogance still finds a vent. If she is not keeping journos wa
iting outside her hotel room, then she is directing shutterbugs as to how she will pose for a shot. And well, she seems to get irritated with the flash bulbs within no time. The lady commands, “That’s all. We are done. Okay?” And prefers not be shot while talking!
Oodles of arrogance, but much of it gets washed away when she starts speaking with immense confidence and conviction. She is in New Delhi to promote Manorama Six Feet Under, directed by adman Navdeep Singh. She declares it is a film with “an international appeal”.
“Its story is very engrossing and new in approach. It’s different from even the so called off-beat films. It will set India on the global map as far treatment is concerned. I wonder why we don’t make such films regularly. I think the fault lies with the audience which doesn’t accept such cinema,” she goes on a blaming spree.
In the film, Gul says she plays a “nagging” wife to a PWD engineer who writes a detective novel that flops. But much to his wife’s annoyance, he plays a real-life detective for Manorama (played by Sarika), wife of a politician who suspects her husband of infidelity.
A chatter box
“I play Nimmi, the arrogant, irritating wife of a hen-pecked husband. She runs a beauty parlour. She has mercurial temperature. At one time she shouts like hell, at another she is polite and understanding. She is a chatterbox too. She talks nineteen to the dozen. She is too complex to handle. She gets nervous when her husband gets entangled in fishy circumstances,” Gul says in one breath
Gul has recently won critical acclaim for the role of a Muslim woman in Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dor. “After this film people’s expectations from me have gone up several notches. I am now very careful about roles. I did four films after Dor but none of them was released. For now I can only wait for audiences’ response to Manorama… and maybe think of doing films that have some sense. I can wait for good films. I don’t get cocky.”
Some time ago she was in the news when it was discovered someone had hacked her website, www.gulpanag.com. “They will be taken to court. For the time being I have changed the name of my website to gulpanag.net,” she concludes.
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