Mandira Bedi Not Out
She’s just as much at ease hosting reality shows, as she is, sharing the hot seat with Charu Sharma. Then again, she can just as easily shed her glam doll tag.
That’s how the stylish Mandira Bedi underwent a reverse makeover to turn into a female Surinder ‘Suri’ Sahni for Meerabai Not Out. Sitting astride her scooty, sporting a kurti and glasses, hair neatly tied up, Mandira Bedi looked every bit the math teacher, Meera Achrekar.
No wonder when someone in the movie remarks about her character’s resemblance to Mandira Bedi, she says, “Main poore kapde pehenti hoon.” She sure is a sport, even if the dig is at her. And she’s not hesitant to call a spade a spade either. So when we ask her about her forthcoming movie, she says, “Well, 42 Kms is a film I haven’t seen and I don’t know what to expect until I watch it. We shot this film three years ago and when you release a film so late, you let a mini generation go by. I just shot and dubbed for it.”
She may have been dubbed controversy’s child, but she doesn’t pretend to be politically correct when we move to controversial territory — the Padma Shri awards, which left out Olympic medallists. “I’ve always wondered about the criteria for such awards. Unfortunately, there’s only one game that drives the country. Earlier, we may have had reason to think so, as we didn’t have international recognition coming in for other sports, but what is the excuse now?”
She would also like to see the Women in Blue get a share of the limelight for a change. “We want to see Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yuvraj hit their shots but nobody wants to see Mithali Raj and Anjum Chopra score a century.” And who would she like to see hitting a ton in IPL Season 2? “The good thing about the IPL is that you don’t have to back one team. You have a favourite player in every team!”
When Mandira’s not watching teams playing, she does some play-acting herself — on stage, that is. That’s what brings her to the city this time around. “Anything But Love is an intelligent comedy with a lot of identifiable moments. It is about two people who can neither live with nor without each other. When we performed this play in Mumbai, I invited all my friends who were married, engaged or had just started seeing someone.”
We bet the Kolkata audience — one of Mandira’s favourites — will find a lot to identify with in the play. That’s what Mandira’s counting on, too.
That’s how the stylish Mandira Bedi underwent a reverse makeover to turn into a female Surinder ‘Suri’ Sahni for Meerabai Not Out. Sitting astride her scooty, sporting a kurti and glasses, hair neatly tied up, Mandira Bedi looked every bit the math teacher, Meera Achrekar.
No wonder when someone in the movie remarks about her character’s resemblance to Mandira Bedi, she says, “Main poore kapde pehenti hoon.” She sure is a sport, even if the dig is at her. And she’s not hesitant to call a spade a spade either. So when we ask her about her forthcoming movie, she says, “Well, 42 Kms is a film I haven’t seen and I don’t know what to expect until I watch it. We shot this film three years ago and when you release a film so late, you let a mini generation go by. I just shot and dubbed for it.”
She may have been dubbed controversy’s child, but she doesn’t pretend to be politically correct when we move to controversial territory — the Padma Shri awards, which left out Olympic medallists. “I’ve always wondered about the criteria for such awards. Unfortunately, there’s only one game that drives the country. Earlier, we may have had reason to think so, as we didn’t have international recognition coming in for other sports, but what is the excuse now?”
She would also like to see the Women in Blue get a share of the limelight for a change. “We want to see Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yuvraj hit their shots but nobody wants to see Mithali Raj and Anjum Chopra score a century.” And who would she like to see hitting a ton in IPL Season 2? “The good thing about the IPL is that you don’t have to back one team. You have a favourite player in every team!”
When Mandira’s not watching teams playing, she does some play-acting herself — on stage, that is. That’s what brings her to the city this time around. “Anything But Love is an intelligent comedy with a lot of identifiable moments. It is about two people who can neither live with nor without each other. When we performed this play in Mumbai, I invited all my friends who were married, engaged or had just started seeing someone.”
We bet the Kolkata audience — one of Mandira’s favourites — will find a lot to identify with in the play. That’s what Mandira’s counting on, too.
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