I consider myself a spontaneous actress, but I need a director to guide me. That it makes me a director's actress.
Playing a dumb bimbo in Race is equally important to me as is playing Supriya in Buddha-da's Kaal Purush.

I was looking for a comic role after serious stuff like Sanjay Gupta's Musafir and Ram Gopal Verma's Darna Mana Hai. I am thrilled that the film Race is a big hit.
Kaal Purush on the other hand, thanks to Buddha-da, really made me understand and learn to love what I was doing.
On Supriya, the ambitious housewife she plays in Kaal Purush:
I loved the character of Supriya. It has several shades to it. She begins as a hard and bitter woman.
Then, her husband turns out to be a 'failure' by her definition. At first, she is unable to cope with it. Then she slowly realises that she must become independent.
The great American dream is just a trigger to turn her into a writer of travelogues on places she has never visited but has seen only on video.
Love, for Supriya, slowly turns to pity, as her husband tells his father at one point in the film.
How close Supriya is to real Sameera:
I do not equate any character I play with my real self as Sameera, the woman and Sameera, the actress.
An actress need not be 'close' or 'distant' to a character.














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