Niha Dhupia Dont Have Mood For Marrige
With her Bollywood career on the gallop, Neha Dhupia has no intention of settling down.Neha Dhupia thinks that marriage with boyfriend and ace squash player Ritwik Bhattacharya can wait when her career is going great guns now after a shaky start.
The ex beauty queen, who is known for her bold roles in films like Julie and Sheesha and equally bold statements like ‘opinions are like assholes, everybody has one!’ is out to surprise the audiences again with a totally new image in Shivam Nair’s upcoming Maharathi.
The actress, sounds a lot more confident in recent times with box-office hits like Singh is Kinng and Mithya under her belt, as she steps to conquer new territories.
Neha plays a vampish role in Maharathi and she seems pretty kicked about trying out something different.
“I play an actress who is very ambitious and is married to a film producer played by Naseeruddin Shah.”
Wife to Naseeruddin Shah? Now that’s an achievement, we say! And Neha feels absolutely honoured too to have worked with a senior actor like Naseeruddin Shah and also Paresh Rawal in the film
. “I feel blessed to have worked and learned from such fantastic performers,” says Neha.
Talking about the story of the film, she says, “There is a suicide in the film which everyone tries to turn into a murder to claim the huge insurance money. All the characters in the film are grey, greedy and selfish, out to make money.”
Neha credits the director of Maharathi, Shivam Nair, for coming up with a good product. She says, “Shivam is a calm and amiable person with a lot of clarity in his thought which reflects in the film. I had liked his first film Ahista Ahista and had always wanted to work with him.”
And no…Neha won’t be seen breaking into a dance number out of nowhere like usual Bollywood films. “I have no songs or dances in the film. It is a very serious character. I want to do all kinds of roles and play different characters,” says she. So, ‘different’ seems to be word the actress is living by to steer off her brazen image.
Her forthcoming films (and a long list at that) will have her playing roles as different as chalk and cheese too. “I’m doing Raat Gayi Baat Gayi with Rajat Kapoor, which has been written by Saurabh Shukla. I have an interesting role in Raftaar opposite Emraan Hashmi where I play the owner of a news channel
. I am also starting work in a Priyadarshan film called De Dhana Dhan in which I play a con girl and is an out and out comedy. Then I also have a film with Vinay Pathak called Papu Can’t Dance Saala,” counts off Neha.
So that means no wedding bells (with longstanding boyfriend and squash champion Ritwik Bhattacharya) ringing in the near future? “I have no plans of marriage yet. But we share a fabulous relationship and we are not answerable to anyone,” is her crisp reply.
Well Neha, your film roster brimming over with such interesting projects is answer enough.
