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That Sunday break
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Ayesha Takia speaks about Sunday and why the film is important to her
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Photo: R. Ragu
But seriously Ayesha Takia: ‘I need a Dor every year to prove that I haven’t forgotten how to play serious roles’
Thank God, Ayesha Takia did a a food supplement ad in her childhood that masses still connect her with. Otherwise they seemed to be forgetting her. With films like “Socha Na Tha”, “Shadi Se Pahle”, “Dil Mange More”, “Fool and Final”, “Yun Hota To Kya Hota” and “Home Delivery” she was also in the list of “not happening” actors.
But her career graph started ascending after she managed to corner admirers with the multi-starrer musical “Salam-e-Ishq”. And Nagesh Kukunoor’s “Dor”, in which she played a young widow, did wonders for her.
She was acknowledged as a fine actor who could do serious roles too. But that was only one film. Ayesha seems to be back to what she was doing — a bubbly innocent girl, given to impulses. In Rohit Shetty’s “Sunday” too, she dons a similar garb.The film is a remake of the hit Telegu film “Anukokunda Oka Roju”. Ajay Devgan, Irrfan Khan and Arshad Warsi are Ayesha’s co-stars.
Says a 21-year-old Ayesha, who also hosted a T.V programme “Disney” at the age of 13, “Though this film has experienced actors, my role has not been thinned because of their presence. I don’t play a girl standing next to her boyfriend goofing up things. I play a role that hardly any heroine has played.”
As Sehar, she is “the most wanted dubbing artiste for animation films” in “Sunday”. She realises that a Sunday is missing from her life. “And on that Sunday, a murder takes place to which she is invariably linked. This role helped me learn dubbing for animated characters. In the introduction scene I had to make at least eight difference voices. When I saw myself on the monitor, I was apprehensive of people’s response to it. But as my co-stars and others laughed and found it really funny, I was slightly assured that the audience would also like it,” says Ayesha.
After “Dor”, Ayesha says her fan following has increased and so has her responsibility as an actor.
“All of a sudden, I have become cautious of the roles I agree to do. I think, the kind of roles that are offered to me, I need a ‘Dor’ every year to prove that I haven’t forgotten how to play serious roles,” she says.
Different roles
In her forthcoming films too, among the films that offer her “different” roles, there is Nagesh Kukunoor’s “Tasveer” in which she plays the lead opposite Akshay Kumar, “Pokhri” opposite Salman Khan to be directed by Prabhu Deva, Nikhil Advani’s half live and half animated film in which she plays the title character “Yuvraj” and in “De Tali” opposite Ritesh Deshmukh and Aftab Shivdasani. “In this film for the first time I am playing a tomboyish girl who cheats on one of the guys. It’s a very ‘dil chahta hai’ish’ film. Kids would love it.”
RANA SIDDIQUI
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