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Gouri Munjal on her dream to don the role of a deva kanya
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Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar
Slow & steady Gouri Munjal
She is one of the many fledgling heroines from the north engaged in a jostle to create a niche in the Telugu film industry. Not many know that this Miss Delhi University 2004 was more obsessed with the glitter of jewellery rather than the showbiz bef
ore films happened. The flash of her dazzling smile tells you why Gouri Munjal landed amid bevy of beauties in the tinsel world. “I always wanted to be a jewellery designer. Since I come from a very conservative background, a career in films was almost unthinkable. It all happened immediately after I completed my +2. One of the producers here contacted me and within the next 48 hours, I was already shooting for Bunny, my debut venture, which turned out to be a major hit,” says she.
Gouri’s tryst with the big screen actually happed decades ago when as a child artiste, she played the role of the daughter of Sharmila Tagore in the film Dastur.
Clad in a T-shirt teamed with a pair of jeans, she appeared as relaxed as charming, even without make-up. Talk of her childhood and she makes a candid confession: “I was not brilliant in studies but I was always above average. Maths is one subject, which had me in jitters,” she chuckles quickly informing about her culinary skills. “I can cook any dish with equal confidence. Be it idli-sambar, north Indian stuff, continental, Chinese or Thai, I can dish out lip-smacking delicacies in a jiffy,” claims the girl from Defence Colony in Delhi.
Besides Bunny, Gouri was seen in ‘not-so-impressive’ projects like Srikrishna-2006 and Gopi besides a few other films in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. “I’d love to do a deva Kanya’s role, a la Sridevi in Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari,” she says spelling out her preferences.
While she struggles to make a mark in the south, none of her family members have seen any of her movies so far. Gouri refuses to agree that the cinema world is a bad place. “It is just that we are more exposed. There is a lot of corruption in every field. It’s all about how you carry yourself as an individual,” she asserts.
P. SUJATHA VARMA
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