Bipasha Basu and Ranbir Kapoor in
Bachna Ae Haseeno
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SINCE
her debut in Abbas-Mustan’s Ajnabee eight years back,
Bipasha Basu has carved a niche for herself in the
industry. "It has been a learning process for me. I
have learnt everything on the job slowly and steadily unlike the
newcomers today who come prepared even with their first
film."
Bipasha confesses
that she has matured with time and become a more responsible
actor. "I am glad I could live to see my film celebrating
its golden jubilee like my second film Raaz did. I am not
bragging about it but I feel sad that today it is not possible
for any actor, including John Abraham, to celebrate the jubilee
of his or her film, since a stage has come when a film has got
to recover its cost in the first three days of its release with
films having become a big business with the mushrooming of the
multiplexes."
Bipasha admits
that she enjoyed working with Ranbir Kapoor in Bachna Ae
Haseeno. "I had a fabulous time playing Radhika, a
dancer in Shiamak Davar’s group, in Bachna Ae Haseeno.
Bipasha recalls the fact that while doing a dance number for the
film, she even had a tear in her leg, but continued to perform
after a physiotherapist was brought to the sets and kept on
stand by to attend to her. According to her, the choreographer
Ahmed Khan manipulated the steps in such a way that the weight
was there only on the left leg and the best thing was that when
she saw the film, it looked like she was not at all in pain when
executing her steps.
Bipasha gets angry
when you ask her how comfortable was it to be pitted against
young guys like Ranbir Kapoor in Bachna Ae Haseeno and
Neil Nitin Mukesh in Freeze. "Why is an actress who
has not even touched 30 labelled as a senior actress just
because she is cast opposite new actors like Ranbir and Neil,
who are younger to me just by two to three years? Aishwarya Rai
has married Abhishek Bachchan who is three years younger to her
but has it in any way changed their relationship"?
Bipasha feels that
it is unfair that there is an anti-lobby for women when she is
cast opposite a younger actor even though she does not sport
wrinkles.
"Why is it
that no one has any objection when an actor like Nana Patekar,
or for that matter Anil Kapoor, is cast opposite actresses who
are half their age? It is high time women are given a
break."
Bipasha feels that
she has not been given her due as an actor though she had given
an award-winning performance in Corporate.
"There are
many reasons why I am not offered good films. I do not belong to
any particular camp. It is well-known fact that I have a
boyfriend whom I do not hide in my closet. All said and done, we
should not forget the fact that it is a hero-oriented film
industry and I cannot ask for more than what I being
offered."
Among the films
Bipasha has up her sleeves are Freeze directed by
Jehangir Surti and Pankh directed by Sudipto Gupta. While
Freeze, in which she has been teamed opposite Neil Mukesh,
is a romantic thriller, Pankh is a psychological thriller
which deals with the psyche of a young boy who has to play a
girl child because of his mum’s pressure. "I play this
interesting imaginary character of a woman who guides him
through his turmoil" says Bipasha.
According to
Bipasha, "I can identify a lot with my character of Radhika
in Bachna Ae Haseeno because like me Radhika is a
contemporary young independent woman. "Your first love can
end in marriage if you are lucky. Also you can fall in love any
number of times till you end up meeting your ideal soul mate. It
is all a question of your luck."
Bipasha admits that love is her
top priority in life. "What would you do in life if you are
busy 24/7 with only your work and have no one to share your
life? However, in case you want to know when I am planning to
take a plunge into marriage with John, but as of now there are
no marriage plans for us though we do not hide the fact that we
are seeing each other and are in love. What I like the best
about John and myself is that both of us do not carry the
baggage of being stars. We are like-minded persons who do not
like to hide behind sunglasses." — MF
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