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By Abigail Rodricks Š2004 Bollyvista.com |
The first thing that strikes you about 21-year-old Udita Goswami is her honesty. Devoid of any pretensions, she makes no bones about her filmi aspirations, her determination to promote her musician brother and her rather unusual expectations of the man she will marry. She tells it like it is.
'Paap' may have received a lukewarm response, but its female lead did not go unnoticed. In a role that called for emoting with her eyes rather than mouthing dialogues, Udita Goswami managed to impress. "I never doubted my decision to act in the movie. This was Pooja's first film and I knew that it was going to be very good. My character is the main focus of the movie and I am certain that after watching me in the film, people are going to take me seriously as an actress. In my next film, I want a good role along with some good dance numbers because I know that I am good at that too," she says confidently.
While most models are happily gyrating in raunchy item numbers, Udita decided to be picky and turned down even the big banners that came her way. "Even when I started my career as a model, I was very choosy about my work, though I was at the time a nobody. I didn't want a role where I would be reduced to dancing like a bimbette."
'Paap' had her teaming up with hunky fellow model John Abraham, whom she considered the sexiest man alive till she acted with him. "I had done a few shows with John and on the ramp he looks like a demi-god. When I got to know him as a person, all that awe slipped away. Acting with him was a really good experience as he is from the same field and I could relate to him."
Udita describes herself as a homebody, who abhors partying and is extremely close to her family. "My family was always there for me from the start. Whether things work out for me or not, I know that my family will still support me and that is most important." For her, being separated from her family was the most trying experience during 'Paap'. "We were shooting in a place where there was no access to anything; no television, no telephone, nothing...that was still fine by me because when you are there to work, you work. But when I fell ill, I was hospitalized in a place where there wasn't even a loo, I was on an IV drip and my family was nowhere near me...that really affected me."
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