It has to be the most cliche question, but how does it feel to be a super star? People are always clamouring to be around you.
Really? Does that really happen? I don’t think people react like this at all.
Everything you do or say becomes controversial why?
What controversy? I don’t even find out about these things since I don’t read the newspapers. I am so involved in my own life, travelling, work and thinking about new ideas that I never get the time to even look, let alone read anything that gets printed.
What do you want to be remembered as eventually?
I will have to do something significant for people to remember me. I have lots of ideas on what to do, but they get copied before I can execute them. I want to do something good for the common people.
Fashion has become such a buzz word these days but so far you made no alliance with this industry. Why?
No designer has ever approached me or made me feel special enough to make me want to work with them. If I am informed beforehand then I oblige. I always attend the Lux Style Awards because they make a big effort with me.
Would you like to walk the ramp at a fashion week for any of your favourite designers?
No designer has made clothes to fit my individual body, personality and style so no designer is my favourite.
If someone insists on making me feel special and caters to me specifically then I will definitely wear their clothes and walk the ramp for them.
You are a brand in your own right. Would you ever consider launching your own label?
I am seriously thinking about launching my own store. I am very creative with designing so I want to open a store where I can exhibit my own hand bags, clothes and antique jewellery.
How can super stars like yourself aid our ailing entertainment industry?
It takes a lot of effort and hard work to do anything being a single woman. I do feel very alone.
In spite of all these years, the same issues prevail in the industry and there is no proper platform for new talent to emerge. In this era, one has to do everything and create opportunities yourself.
A lot of film stars have transitioned onto the small screen, some are even doing morning and evening shows. Will you take that route as well given Lollywood’s depreciating state?
Doing a morning show is very difficult for me; I cannot wake up at 7 am. However, I am doing a few dramas and soon I will be appearing on a reality show on Geo TV and I am also doing a show on Indian television.
How do you feel being the butt of jokes that are routinely circulated as emails and smses?
Yaar kyun? What joy do people get from doing this? Are they jealous of me? Do they want to be like me? I always get so much pressure from the press. I get flustered and start shivering!
I want to deal and meet the media personally and properly but they just hound me. I travel internationally a lot so sometimes I get disoriented and mix languages. I don’t even realise which part of the world I am in sometimes. It’s not that I cannot speak English properly but I get confused by all that pressure and attention that I end up saying something totally wrong.
All artistes need time to rehearse and sometimes we have to memorise those lines even 50 times even if it’s in Punjabi or Urdu to remember it. It is unfair to show such footage unedited (as was done with the show with Tapu Javeri). I want to do my own show depicting my own personality so people can know who I am.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2011.
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