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Minissha Lamba will soon be seen in ‘Shaurya’
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Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
In practice Minissha Lamba says her ambition was to be a TV journalist
As Adaa, a young girl trapped between her love for an Army officer and a strife-torn Kashmir, Minissha Lamba won countless hearts in Shoojit Sircar’s Yahaan two years ago. Her fresh, innocent looks and natural acting talent seemed to promise a lot. But, she ended up doing a few films in which she went almost unnoticed. Anthony Kaun Hai, Rocky–The Rebel, Dus Kahaniyyan, to name a few. But as an ambitious and upright employee, Anamika, in Corporate and a chirpy, young newly married woman in Honeymoon Travels Private Limited, she did manage to score some points with the audience again.
Now Minissha would be seen again playing a lead role in Shaurya, directed by Samar Khan. The film is making a buzz because of its unusual story based on true incidents in the Indian Army. Minissha plays Kavya, an investigative journalist.
Says the lady who caught the fancy of the film directors after being seen in a Cadbury ad, “I play an ambitious investigative journalist who chances upon a story of two Army lawyers played by Rahul Bose and Kay Kay Menon. These lawyers are on two sides of a case, in which the accused maintains a mysterious silence after killing his Commanding Officer. Kavya wants to exploit this story as a ticket to fame. She wants to bag a front page byline with it. But as she galvanises into it, it becomes a human interest issue for her. And she starts looking at it from a different perspective. She handles the story with passion.”
Dream come true
Few know that Minissha’s secret ambition was to become a television journalist and for that she used to practice at home too. That way, she is living her dream in Shaurya. Agrees this Miranda House Commerce graduate, “I really didn’t have to prepare for it. My own practice at home came in handy. I played this role as I would have done if I had been a journalist.” On her earlier choices she says, “Good roles don’t come too often. It is not all right to just wait and watch. I don’t regret the films I have done, as they helped me climb in the film industry, know its people from close quarters, judge the good and the bad.”
Minissha has “two great films” in hand: Kidnap on the father-daughter relationship and Bachna Aai Haseeno, a love story.
RANA SIDDIQUI
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