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Manisha Koirala in a chat during her recent trip to Pakistan for the premiere of Akbar Khan's "Taj Mahal"
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STILL NOT ON A WANE Manisha Koirala
One hadn't met her in a long time. So one was happy to see a slim and smiling Manisha Koirala go up the stage at Lahore 's Plaza theatre at the premier of Akbar Khan's "Taj Mahal".
Later, when we caught up with the actor for a chat, we asked her about her plans to turn a director, and whether she had at all gone to America for a course in filmmaking. She said: "I did finish an intensive summer course in New York, even made a decent diploma film, became a member of an independent filmmaker's society, a documentary filmmakers' society actually, and thought I will go back and improve upon my effort. But it was not to be. I am serious about turning to direction but feel, as I want to make films for the world market, I need a little more understanding of the craft. Also, I like complex scripts myself, so I definitely need to study the whole thing a little more."
About her forthcoming releases, she said she had signed Ram Gopal Varma's Darwaza Bandh Rakho, Rituparna Ghosh's Khela, and the South Indian remake, Tulsi, and now Anwar Jamal's Survivor because she wanted to do different sort of films, and enjoyed working for these movies. "I needed a break from mainstream films as only then will I be able to value my work. I am concerned about how people will remember my work," she said.
Despite some brilliant work in the past, the temperamental star with one of the most exquisite smiles has for sometime been in news for all the wrong reasons, resulting in producers shying away from casting her. Yet she defends working with a director like Jai Prakash who has made classics of the blasι kind, Market and Chahat - better known for skin shows and distasteful love-making scenes. "Jai is a well-meaning director. He always comes up with good ideas," she said. Reminded about bad press reports, raising her chin higher, she said: "Those days are gone when I did something and used to get written about. Now it is just fiction, nothing but an attempt to sensationalise. Let us not forget that because of my open-mindedness, I am the easy target. Thanks to my inner strength, I can overcome all this. I totally believe `what does not break you only makes you stronger'."
SURESH KOHLI
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