Parakh Madan, the shy girl of Star One’s Saathi Re…, has managed a big leap in her career with her lead in Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D, a spoof on repeatedly experimented film Devdas. The talent beautified, Parakh, spent few of her precious moments with us, sharing her thought on Dev D, unveiling her true being and a little more…
Q. What's Dev D all about?
A. Dev D, as the name suggests, is the short form of Devdas and it's a modern take on the classic love story of Devdas. I won’t say it is completely similar to Devdas,
but then the basic story line and the basic characterization is the
same. Adding to that, there are other modern elements like the
character I play in the film, which was never there in the original Devdas. Basically you can call it a new and modern version of Devdas.
Q. Making a spoof is a common practice in Hollywood. Do you think this formula can work in BollywParakh Madan" src="http://www.india-forums.com/bollywood/images/uploads/parakh_madan_big.jpg" align="right" border="" hspace="5" vspace="5">ood too?
A. Today, in Bollywood, no one can predict whether a spoof or re-make
will work or not. It completely depends on how you treat your story,
how real you can make it and ultimately how well you can connect your
story with your audiences.
Q. Your character in the movie…
A. I am playing a character called Rassika which is a new character in the modern version of Devdas. This character was not there in the original Devdas.
It’s Anurag Kashyap`s visualization. I portray the role of today’s girl
who has been born and brought up in city and hence has a completely
modern outlook towards life. She is neither a sati-savitri nor a vamp.
Q. Do the characters of Paro and Chandramukhi exist in this film?
A. Yes, they do, but in the modern version they are not exactly Paro and Chandramukhi.
Q. How it's been working with your co-star Abhay Deol?
A. Oh! Working with Abhay was amazing. I mean, I have my own
apprehension because Abhay is four or five films senior. You also know
the family he comes from and has quiet a good knowledge of how cinema
and its industry work. Whereas, I have done only one film, Jai Santoshi Maa.
Apart from that, I don’t have any filmy background, also, so in the
start I was obviously a little apprehensive. But Abhay and our
director, Anurag, were really sweet and they made me very comfortable.
Q. After portraying a role of a homely girl in your debut serial Saathi Re…, do you think people would accept you portraying this modern girl's character?
A. See, even when I started with Saathi Re…
this was what many people thought of because I was never a sati-savitri
in real life. I was not the ideal Indianised bahu, also. But then it is
basically the way you carry out yourself, the way you look and how much
you believe in the character and eventually people accepts you in that
particular role. Yes, I do understand that it's a completely different
avtar of what I have portrayed on television. So, it is an experiment
and all I can hope is that people accept and like it. It took a lot of
hard work and guts to portray the character of Rassika.
Q. How did you bag this film?
A. We had a normal audition and then I got a call the very next day
from Anurag. He said that he wanted to meet me. I went to his office
where he informed that my audition was good and he would forward my
name to the producer of UTV. The next day the UTV personal called me
and said that I am on for the project.
Q. Any interesting incident on the sets of Dev D that you would like to recall?
A. There was a love making scene between Abhay and me. But the place
where we were shooting was really stinking of shit. It was in a poultry
farm and all that we could smell was the chicken shit. Frankly, it was
the slinkiest place I have ever been to. The last thing that we had in
our mind was the love making scene and we had to shoot it somehow. But
that is Anurag who is always up for real locations. He will not put an
ideal setting where there will be balloons, clouds and things like that.
Q. You have had the opportunity of working for both big and small screens. How would you differentiate between the two mediums?
A. They are completely different mediums. I mean, television is always
short of time because you need a bank of episodes for which one has to
work day and night everyday with no rest and under lot of pressure. A
film, on the other hand, is completely different. But at the same time
I won’t say there is no pressure at all in films. The pressure does
exist in films, too, but it’s not that much as you do have time in
hand. So, you can concentrate on your work.
Q. What do you like to do in your free time?
A. I am a kathak dancer, so I keep myself busy with dancing. Apart from that I like to read also.
Q. Which are the other projects you are working on?
A. As of now I have a new television show called Kis Desh Main Hai Mera Dil with Balaji. Let’s see when the track starts. Apart from that I have not taken any other projects.
Sabir Rahman (SAMPURN)
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