Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.
The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.
I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.
A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
If it is within limits and forms part of the storyline, I have no hesitation in doing glamour roles.
Some felt my looks would not go down with the Bengali audience. They felt I was not photogenic. Others felt I was just what Bengali cinema needed when there was lack of glamour for heroine roles and there were few leading ladies around.
What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.
Fortunately, the films I do not require too much of glamour. Those are the kinds of roles I'm looking for.
I have this demure, girl-next-door image and audiences will not accept me in glamour roles.
I think Bollywood and cricket go hand in hand. Glamour attracts glamour. Cricket has become a very glamorous game now.
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
It's not that I haven't been giving attention to Mollywood. Nor was I consciously going for glamour roles. The fact is that I got busy in Kannada.
I have proved my skills as an actress who can perform both character and glamour roles and 'Uyir' would take me to greater heights.
I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.
I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.
I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.