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Minissha Lamba plays a journalist, her secret ambition, in the film ‘Shaurya’
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FRESH CHALLENGES Actor Minissha Lamba
As Adaa, a young girl trapped between her love for an Army officer and a strife-torn Kashmir, Minissha Lamba won many hearts in Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Yahaan’ two years ago. Her fresh, innocent looks and acting seemed to promise a lot. But, she ended up doing a few films in which she went unnoticed.
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 playing the lead role in ‘Shaurya’, the first film of director Samar Khan. The film is creating a buzz because of its unusual story, based on true incidents in the Indian Army. Minissha plays Kavya, an investigative journalist.
Dream role
Says the actor who caught the fancy of film directors after being seen in a Cadbury ad, “I play an ambitious investigative journalist in ‘Shaurya’, 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 get a front page byline with the story. But as she goes deeper into the story, it becomes a human interest issue for her. And she starts looking at it from a different perspective. Uncorrupted by newspaper politics she handles the story with passion.” Few know that Minissha’s secret ambition was to become a television journalist.
Agrees this commerce graduate, “I really didn’t have to prepare for it. My own practice at home came in handy.”
On her earlier choices she says, “Good roles don’t come too often. I don’t regret the films I have done, as they helped me know the film industry and its people from close quarters.” Minissha has two films in hand: ‘Kidnap’ and ‘Bachna Aai Haseeno.’
RANA SIDDIQUI
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