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Kabhi kabhi Aditi...

Good break Aditi Sharma

It’s 3.00p.m. and Aditi Sharma wants a few minutes to eat before speaking to usthe MetroPlus. “I’m late for lunch, just back from hearing a narration of a Bengali film,” she says. The beautiful actress has finished shooting for Gunde Jhallumannadhi, her debut film with Uday Kiran.

She is currently chalking out the next course of action. The pretty looking Punjabi from Lucknow was spotted through a talent show on TV in 2004 and she instantly bagged two films, Khanna And Iyer, and Black And White.

The actress says she met Madan the director of Gunde Jhallumannadhi and a few others too but chose to work in the former’s film as she was absolutely enamoured by her character. Even after pack up is announced at seven, she says she would write down all her dialogues for the next day and get it translated. Aditi adds, “I wanted to look every inch a Telugu heroine, so I memorised, emoted and lived the role till the film got over.” My director would forget that I’m alien to the language but towards the end of the shoot, I got a little comfy with the language and he would come and explain the scene to me in telugu and would ask, "you got it?" and I would instantly say Yes!. She explains, Gunde Jhallumannadhi is the feeling one gets when you fall in love. I play Neelima, a simple person to look at but she has too many things on her mind. It’s a musical love story and there are scenes that themselves create a comedy.” She heaps praise on her co-star Uday Kiran and says that he’s a very sweet and a charming person, very passionate about his work and very focused.

She had many apprehensions before coming to the South, whether she would adjust to the work, and wasn’t sure if she would sign more films but now by the end of this project Aditi is more than convinced, that she is here to stay.

Aditi means “mother of the Sun God’ she explains. She says her most memorable moment came while working in this Telugu film. She had to stay put for more than 45 minutes on a harness for a shot in Chikmagulur. “A lot of technical equipment was used. A crane had to elevate me and it was so much fun,” she recounts.

The fast-paced dance numbers in Telugu films help the actresses keep fit, she opines. “Swimming at least for half an hour every day is a must for me besides my Kathak dance. I can also make amazing cakes,” she chirps adding that the best exercise she religiously puts into practice is to stay happy.

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