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Sakshi Gulati on her debut film
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Adventurous Sakshi Gulati’s Army background helped in performing stunts
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 Univers
ity, makes her debut in Ramgopal Varma’s “Contract”, which completes Ramu’s trilogy of underworld movies; the first two being “Satya” and “Company”.
“It’s the role of an ‘action heroine’.” 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 is her Army background that gave her the confidence to perform the stunts. A Femina Miss India 2007 runner-up, Sakshi 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.” Asked about her experience of working with RGV, Sakshi enthuses about the freedom he gives to his actors.
To continue with her Bollywood journey, she is training in acting under Barry John and has learnt Kathak and Salsa. Sakshi says RGV is experimenting with placing the woman character in the foreground with the male cast. “I am the only central female character.There is a love story that runs parallel which revolves around me,”.
ZEHRA NAQVI
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