SHILPA WAGHAMBRE 

 

 

 

JAYVEE

What attracted you towards acting as a career?

I would not say that acting is a career as right now I am quite committed to my work as an air hostess in the national carrier Air India, but the same time I’d confess that the acting bug did bite me at a very early age as I had taken part in various cultural, activities while in school and college.

Why did you take up the job of the air hostess instead of trying your hand at acting?

After having been selected as an air hostess out of 38 lakhs of candidates who had applied in 2004, being an air hostess is like a dream, come true as far as I am concerned, because basically I have been a very bubbly and talkative young girl so much so that even I meet a complete stranger, I end up giving him the feeling that he knows me for ages. I like to explore life and human beings as I have had shades of positive as well as negative happenings in my life and I feel that I should be the first person to make any one who is suffering happy in life.

Is it true that you turned down J.D. Majethia’s offer to act in his serial Khichdi?

It is sad but true. I was teaching at Ryan’s International when he met me during a shoot at the school and suggested that I do a small role in his serial. I was too naïve and did not know ABC of acting and hence said no to him

Then how did you stint in show business start?

It was with an offer from the veteran TV and filmmaker Sunil Agnihotri whom convinced me that I had the capacity in me to act, to be part of his epic show Kahani  Chandrakanta Ki that the tryst with my career begin. Even when I was shooting for Kahani Chandrakanta Ki at Rajpipla Palace, Shrey Srivastava saw me and offered me a Bhojpuri film as a leading lady but since by then I had started working for Air India, I did not have time to spare and ended up accepting a small item number in the film Chingari which required just two days of my time. Rani Chatterjee played the leading lady in the film.

You continued to do sexy item numbers in films!

Yes. As I was hard pressed for time with my stint as an air hostess, I could not take yup full- fledged roles in films. It was the veteran journalist Jyothi Venkatesh who is a good friend of mine who suggested to Ujjwal Thengadi to cast me in the item number in his film In The Name of Tai. Then Raju Parsekar picked me up to do a small role in  his film Sat Na Ghat starring big names like Bharat Jadhav, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sayaji Shinde and Pakhi Hegde. After that, I did an item song in Sunil Khosla’s film Char Futiya Chokre. It was followed by a UK based documentary offered to me by Shrey which was aired on national channel in U.K. I did a dance number in actress-producer Riya’s Telugu film Rajmahal with Surya and once again Sunil Agnihotri offered to cast me in a cameo role in his film Balvindar Singh Famous Ho Gaya in which Shaan and Mika Singh played the leading men.

To what extent are you game to do lip lock sequences and appear in a two piece bikini?

I am very bold and have the confidence to carry myself in a two piece bikini but am not sure of indulging in lip to lip kisses on the screen, especially since I will be comfortable to make love or romance only with someone I am committed to.

Is it true that you even tried to commit suicide plagued by personal problems?

Yes. I decided to commit suicide at one stage when I was not only disowned by own parents when I rebelled with them and opted to marry a Muslim guy only to know that he had cheated on me and was married to someone else even before I married him. It taught me a lesson that life is very precious even if your own people disown you for the sake of society and do not support you when you end up taking a wrong decision especially when you are in a vulnerable state and not at all in a position to arrive at a sensible decision on your own. Though I suffered for around five years and I had no friends at all to talk to and was broken completely, my brain supported me and goaded me not to break myself.

What next?

I am in talks with Shrey Srivastava for a Marathi film called Fu Bai Fu Fugadi Fu in which I will play the second leading lady. The producers are looking for an actor like say Shreyas Talpade for the main lead