Everyday is a bad hair day

Quite a relevation for all those who loved this glamour queen of yesteryears for her luxuriant hair. “I have terrible, terrible hair, and only I know how much pain I go through to keep them in shape,” sighed Dimple Kapadia. “I oil them regularly, go in for special treatments and put all sorts of things on them.”
Years of strong-will and the desire to always look good come through as she brushes away streaks of her coloured blonde hair while addressing the media at the newly opened Keune’s Exclusive Hair Design Centre at Greater Kailash-I that she inaugurated.
Compliment her for her smile and she is shocked, “I must tell you this, when Raj saab was shooting me for Bobby and had asked me to smile he had said, 'Stop laughing like a horse'.”
Coming to her current projects and why we have not seen much of her on screen off late, she says, “I am doing only one or two select films in a year now because good projects for a person of my age are really rare. Currently I have finished filming two projects, Pal Tham Gaya and Finding Cyrus, besides these two I am also working on two other projects,” said Kapadia.
From being a teenage mother, to being divorced at a young age with the responsibility of two daughters, life has all but been kind to her. “I have no regrets, whatsoever in life,” she retorts at the mention. “ I feel God has given me far more than I could ever dream of.” So she is happy? “Perfect happiness to me means being happy with yourself and yes, I am very happy with myself.”
For the woman who stunned an audience with her bold roles, she is definitely not happy with the way Bollywood heroines are going about playing seductresses. “Most of the skinshow now is totally uncalled for but at the end of the day each actor is heading her own way.”
Besides Bollywood, she had also been designing clothes, “I haven’t been able to do much this year as I was concentrating on my films. I might work on something new this year.”
Way to go, Dimple.

Published in Hindustan Times Next on February 12, 2005