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Modelling happened just by chance for this Indian Adonis, but Jas Arora is today a name on the modelling and video circuit. In a chat with SOUVIK CHOWDHURY, he talks about himself and his forthcoming film `Danger'.
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LEAVING A MARK: Jas Arora moves from modelling to films. - Photo: P.V. Sivakumar
HE TOOK the crowd by storm and they outdid him in a deafening encore. With his clean cut boy-wonder image and the trademark smile enhancing his deep dimples and hypnotising eyes strengthened with a quiet confidence in himself, the Indian Adonis Jas Arora stole the evening with his lop-sided grin and his usual panache. The model-turned actor was here in town in connection with the showcasing of Wills Sport - Spring-Summer Collection 2002 on April 21 at ITC Kakatiya Sheraton Hotel and Towers.
From the fashion runways to the silver screen in Bollywood, the sojourn has been "not-so-easy". Till now, Jas has acted in two movies - Main Solah Baras Ki and Dushman. But the third one - Govind Menon's Danger, scheduled for release in another month's time, is the one, which Jas believes will establish him as an actor. Talking about his forthcoming film, an excited Jas says, "Danger is a two-hour, seven-minutes no-song high-voltage thriller with me playing an ex-convict and Tara Deshpande, the female lead, playing Ashutosh Rana's mistress. Danger promises to go beyond the beaten track with music director Hussain providing nine lively background tracks. There's no lip-sync in this fast-paced thriller. All the songs are in the background, meticulously interwoven into a plot that is essentially gripping. And I'm dead sure the film will do brilliantly at the box office."
His first visit to Hyderabad though, Arora is seemingly enamoured by the place. He will go to any length for Hyderabadi biryani and Irani chai - the two items he survived on during his two-day stay in the city. A great food aficionado, the Allen Solly man "simply loves" the city for "its rich Nawabi cuisine and old monumental heritage". "I have come here as a fashion guru for the event not to turn young boys and girls into models but to turn them into model personalities," says the celebrated model-turned-actor acknowledging that a lot of hard work and perspiration goes into the making of a successful model. "It might be as easy as selling your smile but at the end of the day you realise that it has been not so easy. It has not been a cake-walk, after all," Arora confesses.
He, however, adds that for him modelling happened by chance. "When I had just completed my graduation, a friend suggested that I could be a model and immediately I was approached by Prabuddha Das Gupta to model for Nivea. I took it as a joke initially. It was only after I got my first dues as a model that I began to contemplate on it seriously." And today, Jas has over 150 ads to his credit not mentioning the umpteen music videos he has added to his hat of feathers.
Clearly amongst the most popular male video star today, Arora shot into meteoric fame and stardom with Mera Laung Gawacha opposite Deepti Bhatnagar. But it was Gurnalo Ishq Mita with Malaika Arora Khan and Zees Music's Yaroon Sab Dua Karo, Arora became a household name. "It's nice that I am easily recognised by the public more because of these video albums I have worked on," says the Taurean who is happily married to a doctor for the past one year. A seemingly extrovert person by nature, Arora prides guarding his private life zealously. "I am actually a very private person and enjoy my moments of solitude more than anything else," he says. And Jas, who possesses the singular trait of being able to express volumes with one sweeping look that leaves every girl swooning and drooling over him, as he walks down the ramp, might soon have a larger arena of fans appreciating him for his acting skills and repertoire.
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