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Mita to do cabaret
Radhika Bhirani
 Actress
Mita Vashishth, often categorised as a serious offbeat artiste in
Bollywood, is in for a role reversal. She is set to play a flamboyant
cabaret dancer in Sai Paranjpye’s comeback film. "Yes, I am
playing a cabaret dancer for Sai Paranjpye’s comeback film Khoon
Toh Hona Hi Tha (Paranjpye is directing a film after an 11-year
break). I have grown up watching her films and she has offered me a
very interesting role," Mita said. Mita, who has been noted for
her roles in Ghulam, Dil Se and Phir Milenge, is unsure
whether she will be asked to dance to sensuous numbers. "The role
is actually that of a cabaret dancer probably in her late thirties. So
I really don’t know what I am in for. The cabaret dancer is deeply
connected to a businessman who is killed in the film. So that makes
her role important. It will be a comedy thriller. Cabaret is something
I never thought of doing, so it is really exciting," she said.
The film has an ensemble cast, including actors like Deepti Naval,
Dilip Prabhavalkar, Suhasini Mulay and Yatin Karekar. Apart from Khoon
Toh Hona Hi Tha, Mita has three other Bollywood films as well as
one Bengali movie. These are director B.H. Tharun Kumar’s Rafoochakkar
— Fun On The Run, Sujoy Ghosh’s fantasy flick Aladdin
and a comedy called Care of Mr Azgaonkar and Family. Her
Bengali project is titled Antaheen.
After doing serious
roles, it seems Mita is into comedies in a big way. "I have
always been typecast as a serious actor. In fact, so much so that now
that I am doing some comedy films, I might just start getting defined
a serious comedy actress," she quipped. — IANS
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