Soha ali

It’s not the first time that a Bollywood actress has spoken out about the constant skin-shows that happen on-screen but Soha Ali Khan has another reason not to expose. Why? Because her mum said she couldn’t. Or at least that she shouldn’t.

Soha’s mum, Sharmila Tagore has advised her daughter, through her own experience, that exposing on screen was a mistake that she made. Sharmila shocked everyone 30 years ago by wearing a bikini in An Evening in Paris and now feels that that’s not what she wants for her daughter, even if filmmakers expect it from Soha, just because she did it before.

“She told me that if producers want me to get into a bikini just because she did so once, I’m supposed to say, ‘My mom made some mistakes. I won’t repeat them.’ There are some things which I don’t need to be told not to do, just as I’ve my own list of dos,”

She also speaks about her role in the industry and confusion about what kinds of roles she likes best. So the answer? Simple, do both.

“I’m not too old in the industry, still finding my way around. I can’t say whether I’m cut out for ‘Shaadi No. 1′ or ‘Antarmahal’. Ideally I’d like to do both kinds of cinema, just like my mom did. There’re some things I won’t be comfortable doing.”

“Sometimes I feel I belong to another era. That’s when ‘Antarmahal’ seems like my cup of tea. Then again I want to do a young contemporary girl’s role because that’s what I’m in real life. In ‘Rang De Basanti’, I played a young college-going girl. I like that.”

Sorry for the rubbish posts today (besides Locustwillow’s of course) but I think I’m coming down with something. Toomuchexamsitis? I think so!