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Hot after "Raaz". Hotter after "Jism". Now, as "Footpath" kisses the silver screen, she is the hottest name in Bollywood. Meet Bipasha Basu with SANJEEV CHOUDHARY to find this bombshell is rooted to family values... .
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Thumbs up for Bipasha Basu.
SHE MADE a splash with Thumbs Up. The TV commercial may have increased the cold drink's sales but it sent her stock sky high. Here was a fresh face that captivated the audience, a lady with a sensuous figure who flaunted it with abandon. She finally got the coveted Bollywood stamp for her role in the blockbuster "Raaz", after making a rather uneventful debut in Abbas-Mastan's "Ajnabee". But don't jump to any conclusions. Bipasha Basu is a pleasantly frank girl completely clean of pretensions. In fact, she is not always able to hide her feelings. She was in New Delhi this past week for media interaction about her film, "Footpath", a Vikram Bhatt film co-starring Aftab Shivdasani, Rahul Dev and debutant actor Emraan Hashmi.
"This film is a story of four kids who have been born and brought on `Footpath' where I play a role which is full of principles and values, a girl who moves away from `Footpath' and gets her lost childhood love back. The story is based on some basic elements such as loyalty, trust and betrayal," explains Bipasha, beautiful in all red.
It seems that the actress is always in the middle of controversies for reasons more than one. "I have chosen a different path in Hindi films. The kind of roles I am doing require guts. The scripts demand every bit of what I have done. If you are successful then you don't have to explain but if you are a failure then you will not be there to explain," she ruminates philosophically.
The actress got a lot of appreciation for her role in "Raaz". As she explains, "It was just not a horror film. It is a story of a woman ditched by her husband whom she loves intensely, wants him back by any means. I have no hesitation in saying that it has established me as an actress."
"Having started my career as a model, nobody was taking me seriously and even I was doing it for fun but `Raaz' has given me a platform where now I am in a position to choose films. With the passing of time I am learning more of it by doing films with different co-stars and some very good directors and it is helping me in growing," she adds.
Ask her about her dream role and Bipasha is quick to react: "Well, I have no specific sketch in my mind but I would love to do the role of `Erin Brokovich', the role played by Julia Roberts, if it is made in Hindi. While modelling I was offered assignments from New York and Paris, but I am happy doing Hindi films. You are treated as a second-class citizen out there, which I hate. For a family person like me who misses her parents and friends, I would love to work in my country and feel proud about it, something very important for me."
The lady is not short of good fortune either.
"Luck certainly is in my favour right now as I am getting good roles and working with some very good directors," she says candidly, adding, "I am working on films which have potential to show different shades of mine, like `Jane Hoga Kya', a first of its kind science fiction film based on human cloning, a subject not even touched by Hollywood filmmakers." The others films are "Ishq Hai Tumse", opposite Dino Morea, "Rudraksh", "Zameen" and "Aitbaar" where Amitabh Bachchan plays her father and John Abraham is the lover boy.
When you ask about the possible response to these films, she replies smartly, "You actually cannot predict the fate of any films. In fact I don't expect anything miraculous from my films but just try my best according to my directors and concentrate on my work."
Bipasha, a fun loving, outgoing person wants to live life to the fullest. As she puts "I am an easygoing, well-groomed person brought up with family values and I value everything in life."
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