It was an easy break by all means.
There was no slimy producer offering me a couch as the ladder to success, I
wasn’t making an entry as a silly moll or as a sexy item number.
It happened like this. I was acting
in a period play called “Baghdad ka Ghulam’ directed Barry John. I
played Benazir, a woman who dresses as a man in order to reach her lover in the
traditional Arabic 18th century setup. An assistant spotted me and called
me to audition for Dibakar Banerjee’s next film.
