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roles of substance Gul Panag

The film is said to be based on farm suicides. “I am playing Vishakha, a doctor who is a Gandhian in this age. She is an upright person, an adarshwadi, who finds herself in conflict with her materialistic friends. The group gets a reality check when they are sent to a village.” Gul has another reason to do the film. “Suhail introduced me with tele-serial Kashmir. He has been my mentor who moulded me as an actress. So I had to be there in his first film.”

On her choice of roles, Gul says she could have easily danced around trees in chiffon saris. “After all I had the experience of beauty pageants. But I don’t believe in herd mentality. I have a mind and an opinion of my own.

I realised early that if you have to last in this industry you have to be different from the lot. I didn’t want to be in a situation that after two decades somebody would say yes Gul did five good movies but what about those ten crappy films?”

She is not uninterested in glamorous roles. “A role cannot be defined as glamorous and non-glamorous. It has to have certain depth. I would love to work with Yash Raj banner if I am offered a role like Preity did in Veer Zara and Kajol in Fanaa.” But then camps have their own requirements both on and off screen. “I believe I am a good actress,” she quips. Though she doesn’t believe in taking her characters home, Gul agrees at times they do accompany her. Coming up next is Hello, which is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel “One Night @ the Call Center.” “Here I will be seen in a completely glamorous role.” Hello! Didn’t she hate the distinction?

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