Bollywood Gossip: Bengali actress Paoli Dam‘s first Bollywood film is already being talked about so much, due to some sexually explicit dialogues and a poster of her bare back for ” Hate Story”. But the actress is not bothered about all the hoopla being made about the film, she’s just happy making her debut in it.
“It’s a woman-oriented film and I got a lot of scope to perform. It’s a revenge drama, it’s emotional, it’s total masala and entertainment. Not just my dialogues are explicit, everyone’s are. And intimate scenes toh pehle bhi ho chuke hain bahut saari films mein, I am not the first actress to show my bare back either. I guess what people are talking about is that it’s differently shot and differently performed. But whatever we’ve done, we’ve done keeping Bollywood in mind, hamare daayre ke andar hi kiya hai, and I’m happy that people are enjoying it,” she tells us.Ask her if she’s worried about being typecast as a sex siren, and pat comes the reply, “I have done different kinds of films in Bengali. I don’t want my career to be monotonous, so there is no question of being typecast right now.” Paoli Dam adds, “As an actor, I have no inhibitions, we are professionals. But even then I am very choosy and selective about my roles. I have my dos and don’ts. When I spoke to Vikram, what I really liked about the film was the script, the vision, this character is so powerful. It’s the story of the power of a woman, and it’s glamourous and stylized. Plus girls around the world are always bolder than men. They have such strong will power and determination.”
She’s not particularly happy with being referred to as the next Mallika Sherawat though. “I don’t think people are not calling me that, the press is. I don’t want to be anybody and neither would anybody want me to be someone else,” she says.
She had no problems with her dialogues in Hindi (and when we ask her this, she starts talking in Hindi), because she spent three months in Mumbai before the shooting began, to familiarize herself with the language. “Shooting shuru hone se pehle teen mahine Mumbai mein rahi thi main, to get into that comfort zone, so that the work becomes spontaneous,” Paoli Dam says.
And while everyone is on about how much she’s bared in her film, we want to know how she maintains that figure. “Oh, for those three months, I used to work out thrice a day, I had to shed 10 kilos within a month and I’m just maintaining that now,” she signs off.
Blue posters for Hate Story
Paoli‘s bare back on the poster of “Hate Story” has not been received very well in Kolkata where the film’s posters are being painted blue, as ordered by the city’s high court. About this controversy, Paoli says her job is to act and she’s done just that. “I’ve nothing to say against the law. Censorship is a call that my director and producers will take. I have done my job as an actor. I feel the content of a film determines the poster design. One can’t make posters that cheat the audience,” says the Bengali actress.
