Bipasha Basu wants in on action films

Bipasha to play victim of marital abuse in upcoming film Aakrosh.


Ians October 18, 2010

MUMBAI: Bipasha Basu confesses that she is itching to do action roles. In her upcoming film Aakrosh, which highlights the issue of honour killings, Basu plays the character of a fragile girl sensitive to the atrocities around her. However, in real life the actor claims she is tough enough to beat her boyfriend John Abraham and match his level of energy.

I want to do action. I think I am fit at this point in time and that is a zone that I have not tapped fully and in India we don’t have too many films where women get to do action sequences. Hopefully, in the near future I will get something that I want. So I’m just keeping my fingers crossed,” Basu said.

“I feel it’s very important for girls’ to be (physically) strong. I have a boyfriend who is very strong; so I should match at least 30 per cent of his strength. Now my stamina is much more than his, I can beat his energy level in 20 minutes,” revealed Basu, who also released a fitness DVD titled Bipasha Basu: Love Yourself earlier this year.

After starting her career with her film Ajnabee in 2001, Basu, who was initially a model, went on to do films like Aankhen, Jism, Raaz, No Entry, Corporate, Race and All The Best.

“In the film, I play Geeta who is madly in love with Ajay Devgan but due to family feuds — because he is from a different caste — I am not allowed to marry him.” Instead Geeta is married off to Paresh Rawal. “In the film, I lead a very sad life. This is by far the saddest role that I’ve actually ever done. I pity the life of women who have to go through this pain in reality.”

“My character in the film goes through marital abuse; she gets continuously beaten up and abused by her husband. She basically has no happiness left, she was not allowed to be with man she loves and just carried through life as more or less a dead person.

“Which is why Geeta has no make-up, her saris are very simple. She doesn’t even do her hair properly. She is by far the most vulnerable, weak and fragile role that I have ever played,” she added.

Basu maintains she is not a methodical actor and leaves her character on the sets without taking the emotional baggage of the role home. “If you make me rehearse too much, I’ll be like a robot, and I’ll be mechanical. So, I don’t belong to the method school of acting and I don’t understand it because to me they all sound mad. I’m an instinctive actor because I learn on the job.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18th, 2010.

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