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Sakshi Gulati on her debut film ‘Contract’
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Photo: R.V. MOORTHY
Adventurous Sakshi Gulati
It comes as quite a surprise when the dainty Sakshi Gulati tells you that she adores adventure sports. “That’s what helped me do the stunt-scenes in Contract,” she says.
Sakshi, an economics graduate from Delhi University, makes her debut in Ramgopal Varma’s forthcoming movie Contract, which completes Ramu’s trilogy of underworld movies; the first two being Satya and Company.
“It’s the role of an ‘action heroine’,” she tells you enthusiastically. While shooting in Thailand, Sakshi trained for three hours for a jet-skiing scene in the ocean — without a life jacket. Her father was a brigadier and Sakshi says it’s her Army background that gave her the confidence to perform the stunts.
A Femina Miss India 2007 runner-up, Sakshi, she wanted to try acting after modelling. On a friend’s suggestion, she went to Ramgopal Varma, who was just completing the casting for his new film. “He asked me to perform something. I took up four lines and repeated them in as many different ways as I could. Then he gave me a two-page monologue to deliver. Later, he gave me valuable tips on developing a character in one’s mind.” Asked about her experience of working with RGV, Sakshi enthuses about the freedom he gives to his actors to interpret the scene in their own way. To continue with her Bollywood journey, she is training in acting under Barry John and has learnt Kathak and Salsa. Asked whether her role would be noticeable in a movie that is male-centric, Sakshi says that RGV is experimenting with placing the woman character in the foreground along with the male cast. “I am the only central female character, so it is bound to be noticeable! There is a love story that runs parallel which revolves around me,”.
ZEHRA NAQVI
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