Karisma Kapoor: “Being a choose of a actuality present helps you connect with the grassroots”

By Jyothi Venkatesh

Right this moment, Karisma Kapoor, who continues to be beautiful, celebrates her 48th birthday. The versatile actress has left her footprints within the annals of Indian cinema proper from the time she breezed in with D Rama Naidu’s Prem Qaidi until she opted for marriage and motherhood. To mark her birthday, we reproduce this interview the place KARISMA KAPOOR tells Senior Journalist JYOTHI VENKATESH, who she is aware of proper from Day One when she had made her debut in movies, that her youthful sister Kareena Kapoor and he or she are poles aside.

I vividly keep in mind how Karisma was astonished when she noticed me clad in make-up and costume at Movie Metropolis the place she additionally was taking pictures for a movie with Suniel Shetty twenty years in the past and after I informed her that I used to be performing in a comedy serial the place I used to be taking part in the function of a South Indian, she promised to come back to the units and see me doing my half.

Frankly, I didn’t take Lolo critically however she landed up on my units close by her units to look at me in motion and all the unit was thrilled to see the then prime actress coming for a sneak preview of the serial. She sat for fifteen minutes and left when her shot was prepared and a man from her unit got here to ask her to report on her units.

There was a sort of camaraderie between Lolo and me since I knew not solely her but additionally her grandfather Raj Kapoor in addition to her mother and father Randhir Kapoor and Babita. I took the freedom of asking her and Ajay Devgn, her co-star for a radio interview referred to as Lux Sitaron Ki Pasand method again within the 90’s once they have been taking pictures for a movie at Filmistan. Karisma requested me to take Ajay’s interview first and promised to present me the interview after I completed that of Ajay, who was additionally a very good buddy of mine.

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When Lolo requested me to play the recording as a result of she wasn’t positive whether or not had spoken correctly, I used to be about to play the recording when Ajay walked in and Lolo was cussed that Ajay mustn’t hear the interview as a result of she needed him to listen to it solely when it was aired on Vividh Bharati. When Ajay stubbornly refuse to depart the make-up room of Karisma and insisted that he additionally would hearken to the interview that Lolo had given to me, Karisma pleaded with me to ask Ajay to depart the room and I had no different various however to ask him to get out of Karisma’s make-up room. However naturally, Ajay was fairly peeved with me.

It was method again in 1999.There was a giant Bollywood occasion as soon as and after I ran into Karisma Kapoor on the occasion as she was the heroine of the movie, Karisma got here as much as me and informed me that her child sister Bebo alias Kareena Kapoor was all set to make her debut with Rakesh Roshan’s movie Kaho Na Pyar Hai and requested me to please not be harsh to her and rag her as she was a newcomer, as a result of she cared for her lots and requested me to be type to her and I used to be actually touched by the sibling connection.

I keep in mind one more event after I met Lolo after she had left Mumbai and settled down in Delhi along with her then husband Sunjay Kapoor and he or she had sauntered in at a celebration hosted by the Director of Worldwide Movie Pageant of India within the capital. Although at that time of time each Karisma and I have been very shy and have been under no circumstances used to even formally hug one another at any time when we met one another each time however as she had been away from ‘aamchi’ Mumbai for fairly an extended time period, the second she noticed me from a distance on the occasion, she got here sprinting in direction of me and hugged me and performed a peck on my cheek, to my shock as properly.

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Karisma was among the many first few actors in Bollywood to take up a actuality present like Nach Baliye Season 4, as a star choose. Is judging actuality reveals another profession for actresses right this moment? I keep in mind asking her then. Lolo had replied, “I don’t suppose that being a choose of a actuality present is a profession various for actresses right this moment. I think about it as one more avenue to satisfy the contestants, work together with them and join with the grass roots. Although one could tackle the mantle of the choose for the fact present, I really feel that after you’re an actress, you’re all the time an actress. I like dancing. I like every kind of jhatkas and kamar matkas. I’ve all the time recognized myself with all of the contestants as a result of I might empathize with what they have been present process since folks used to attend to know what sort of dances I used to be doing in all the flicks by which I’ve acted  until date, be it Mere Pant Bhi Attractive Hai in Dulara or Pardesi Pardesi in Raja Hindustani.

Karisma additionally confessed to me that she didn’t have any reservations about being seen on TV. “Earlier than Nach Baliye 4, I had already made the transition from movies to TV with the serial Karishma on Sahara One. TV has been a tremendous expertise for me. I love all of the TV artists who do fiction in addition to actuality reveals, as a result of I understand how powerful it’s to be in your toes on TV for 24 hours. Right this moment we must always get up to actuality and admit that the hole between the tv display screen and the large celluloid display screen has been narrowed down and could be very shut, with each large star be it Amitabh Bachchan or Shah Rukh Khan in Kaun Banega Karodpati or Kya Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hai or for that matter Salman Khan in Bigg Boss or Dus Ka Dum getting into the fray as the sport present anchor or choose like Urmila Matondkdar did in Waar Parivaar.

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Karisma proceeded to admit to me frankly that she had turned down a number of actuality reveals earlier together with Chake De. “I had been provided fairly a couple of reveals earlier both as a choose or as a participant however it didn’t work for some purpose or the opposite. You’re feeling good once you notice that you’re needed. One of many the reason why I couldn’t settle for the provides earlier than Nach Baliye 4, in addition to the cash issue which didn’t go well with me, was the truth that my daughter Samaira wanted my time and a focus and I couldn’t afford to depart her facet for the sake of judging a present”.

Karisma asserted that it was under no circumstances powerful for her to juggle between her residence and profession as a result of actuality TV doesn’t take a lot of your time like say a TV serial or for that matter a function movie. I mentioned sure to the provide to guage Nach Baliye Season Four when Star Plus approached me solely after I made positive that the time-frame required from me suited me. I must dedicate just one or two days each week to the present which was on air on the week-ends on Fridays and Saturdays.

Karisma says that she had by no means ever mentioned that she was quitting performing after Shakti. “In Hollywood, a number of actors like Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep take a break from performing every now and then to rejuvenate themselves. After they seem in a movie after a break, you don’t say that they’re staging a comeback. I believe it’s excessive time we in India additionally broadened our horizons in direction of actuality. Don’t girls in different professions take maternity depart and resume their work after they ship a child? I might say that it has been a well-deserved break for me, after working nonstop for nearly ten years ever since my debut with Prem Qaidi. Your priorities in life change once in a while”.

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Karisma says that it has been a well-deserved and nice sufficient break for an actress like her who has had the very best of each the worlds. “I’m proud of the way in which my profession has progressed. I’ve had the chance to work in significant movies like Khalid Mohammad’s Fiza in addition to Shyam Benegal’s Zubeida in addition to industrial movies like David Dhawan’s Hero No 1 or for that matter Biwi No 1. I might not hesitate to confess that it’s a tremendous feeling after I hear folks inform me that they wish to see me on the large display screen as soon as once more. I do miss my craft as a result of I’ve all the time been enthusiastic about performing. The day I get a tremendous provide, I’d seize it with each my fingers. You already know it as a result of you could have seen me from Day One as an actress.

Karisma confesses that she has been provided various movies with Kareena. “I really feel that it could be a giant deal for each of us to co-star in a movie and therefore we don’t wish to do exactly any movie. It must be the final word. Kareena and I are poles aside. I’m quaint not like Kareena who shocks me on a regular basis. There isn’t any method I might have had the heart to be in a relationship with a co-star of mine or get married like her on the peak of my profession. Nevertheless I’m completely happy for her as a result of she is a smart lady and the household has stood by no matter choice she takes so far as her life is anxious.

Requested what the distinction was between Lolo of yesterday and Karisma Kapoor of right this moment, she indicators off.  “There are ups and downs in any marriage. Motherhood does change a girl rather a lot. It has made me extra mature and balanced as a result of I now have a greater perspective about life not like earlier. Undoubtedly, it’s the finest expertise a girl can undergo in her life. Motherhood has made me rather more accountable now as a human being than earlier after I was carefree.