Make way for some meetha

Old habits die hard. Ask Mahima Chaudhary. No matter how many times the industry shuns her, she darts right back to take the centre stage with yet another ‘different’ film. She is doing it again with film journalist-turned-director Samar Khan’s debut Kuch Meetha Ho Jae that releases nationwide on April 15.
“Samar and I have been old friends and it was great that he approached me with the role. I was very happy when I heard the script because I have been dying to do a film that will have the audience in splits, but when we started working I found that Arshad had all the funny lines. I approached Samar about this and he said, ‘You have funny face, make do with it’,” she laughs and so do I.
“I play a muslim girl, Gulab, who enters the airport wearing a burqha escorted by her in-laws. Gulab is a very sad because all her expectations to live a happily married life are lost to an insensitive husband who keeps comparing her to a tootache that he has to live with.” (I laugh again). “As the flight is delayed, her in-laws have to leave and she is alone in the airport, then off goes the burqha to reveal that she is wearing a skimpy skirt and a short top under the burqha that makes heads turn towards her.”
Though she has quite a long list of films in which she will be seen this year, she is most excited about Hope And A Little Sugar by Tanuja Chandra based on the 9/11 tragedies. As for now, Mahima has hopes for a meetha start for the year.

Published in Hindustan Times Next on April 12, 2005