“I will be signing films after a short break.
Mahie has not taken up any film recently (apart from Buddha In A Traffic Jam with Anupam Kher where she plays the character of a woman working for an NGO). Though I was a little nervous initially when I started working with Naseer saab.” “I am confident because I know I am talented. “Working with such strong actors helps me learn and I never feel intimidated by their presence,” she asserts. Her theatre background helps especially when she has to work with talented actors like Naseeruddin Shah (in her new film Michael in which she plays a nurse), Abhay Deol (Dev D), Deepak Dobriyal (Not A Love Story), Jimmy Shergill (Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster) and Irrfan (Paan Singh Tomar). “So it’s okay that I accept such characters,” she says. She finds it easy to unshackle herself from the characters she plays. Tigmanshu conceived my role but he gave me the freedom to interpret it.” I wrapped up shooting for Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster in no time too. Yes, my role in Not A Love Story was exhausting, mentally, but luckily, we finished shooting the film in 20 days. I do not prepare for any role and have never done workshops. Once you understand that, your job becomes simple. “An actor has to keep in mind what the director wants. “I dedicate myself to the role and film, and nowadays it includes promoting the film too,” she quips. Mahie also debunks the theory that she is a “method” actress. I am dying to do both comedy and romantic films,” declares Mahie, adding, “I have grown up watching romantic films and I absolutely adore Sridevi.” “I am lucky to have got such author-backed roles so early in my career. Mahie also stresses that the darkness in her three most-recognised on-screen characters has been coincidental.
When I get an offer from an intelligent director, I accept it right away,” she adds. Last year, he offered me Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster.
I play Paan Singh’s Rajasthani wife in the film. Tigmanshu had also watched some of my earlier performances and he cast me first in Paan Singh Tomar, which got delayed and will only release early next year. Ram Gopal Varma watched Dev D and offered me Not A Love Story. “But I would say that scripts and filmmakers choose me rather than the other way round. “I do make a conscious effort to play diverse characters,” she says. Clearly, Mahie, who has won several debut awards for Dev D, has pushed the envelope as an actress.Īs Anusha in Not A Love Story, the ambitious actress who will go to any lengths to become a star, even concealing her boyfriend’s crime, and as “Biwi”, the psychologically disturbed but cold-blooded opportunist of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, Mahie has been raking in accolades. Next came a couple of insignificant films (besides a small role in the smash-hit Dabangg) till her double whammy this year - Ram Gopal Varma’s Not A Love Story and Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster. In the same year, she sizzled in a unique item song, Ranaji, in Kashyap’s Gulaal. But her breakthrough came along when Anurag Kashyap saw her at a party and instantly finalised her for Dev D (2009), where her saucy turn as Paro earned her rave reviews and audience appreciation.
Her first tryst with Hindi cinema was a small cameo in Sudhir Mishra’s Khoya Khoya Chand. Her few films might have received a mixed response from both critics and viewers, but there is hardly any dissent over the fact that Mahie Gill always scores as an actor.īorn in Chandigarh, she completed her Master’s in Theatre from Punjab University (despite an early ambition to join the Army) and started her film career with the Punjabi film, Mitti Wajaan Maardi in 2007 (and later Chak De Phatte in 2008). Within just two years in the Hindi film industry, Mahie Gill has acquired the ability to surprise the audience.
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