‘It’s time I played my age’
SINCE her debut with Rock On! in 2008, Prachi Desai (of soapie Kasam Se fame) has been part of many films.
However, the actress feels she has been “a bit choosy” because the work that has been offered to her “was too repetitive”, and required her to play mature parts.
Desai, who was 19 when she made her debut, said: “The minute I came in, I was perceived as a mature actor.
“Back then I did films like Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. But, I think people forgot that this 19-year-old deserved to play roles her age.
“I am still in my 20s and need to portray characters that I can relate to. I need to work with actors who are my age.
“Why does this (mature) image become a barrier? Ideally, I would love to do a musical, a rom-com or even a romance.”
Desai says that whenever “stalwarts and top directors” meet her, they are amazed by how young she looks in real life. “But when it comes to working with me, the reaction is the opposite.
“Also, since I don’t come from a film family, my father can’t produce a movie for me.
“So, every day is like a fight. You are on your own for everything,” said the actress, adding that “life has come full circle” with Rock On 2.
“Doing the film has been very emotional and special for me,” she said. Actress Mallika Sherawat and her French partner were tear-gassed and hit by three masked intruders outside his Paris flat in an apparent botched robbery, prosecutors confirmed this week.
The attack, in which the 40-yearold Indian actress and partner Cyrille Auxenfans, 45, were set upon with tear gas and he beaten, came weeks after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in the French capital.
The assault took place when the pair arrived at Auxenfans’ residential building in the chic 16th arrondissement of Paris at 9.40pm.
But the assailants fled empty-handed, according to Agnes Thibault- Lecuivre of the Paris prosecutor’s office, leaving a shocked Sherawat and her friend to call the emergency services.
A criminal inquiry has been opened into the incident.
According to Le Parisien, the French capital’s daily newspaper, the criminals wore scarves across their faces and “without saying a word, sprayed their victims with tear gas” before landing punches on Auxenfans.