"Ammaji was beyond age and gender" - Meghna Malik

If audiences were in for a pleasant surprise when they saw Meghna Malik, small screen's "Ammaji", jiving in the sixth season of dance reality show "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa", the actress too finds herself in a completely different space.

If audiences were in for a pleasant surprise when they saw Meghna Malik, small screen's "Ammaji", jiving in the sixth season of dance reality show "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa", the actress too finds herself in a completely different space.

"Jhalak..." went on air June 1 and Meghna calls the experience "lovely" and "different from the acting work that I have been doing".

"I am finding myself in a completely different space. I am struggling with my feet and the floor. I am struggling with the lip sync of the songs, which is a tough part in the performances. It is a different form for me as an artist to express myself," she said.

Meghna's role as a mean "Ammaji" in the TV show "Na Aana Is Des Laado" used to send shivers down the spine and she admits her character was beyond age and gender.

"When I started working on it, I felt that it is different and I wanted to keep it different. There was a huge effort involved to keep it different," Meghna told IANS.

"By the standards of a daily soap, it was an interesting character which came across. For me, the age or the gender didn't matter. Ammaji was beyond age and gender. It didn't bore me in three and a half years of the show," she added.

Getting her teeth into the role of a merciless matriarch, who wipes out those who tries to oppose her decision to kill female foeticide, was indeed a mental and physical struggle for her.

"A lot of physical strength and mental strength was required to be consistent in that body language...she had big dialogues to speak and that was quite a task for me," she said.

She had earlier appeared in shows like "Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi", "Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai", "Tujko Hai Salaam Zindgi" and "Kagaz Ki Kashtti", but got her due after playing Ammaji.

She feels the TV industry has a limited range of characters.

"TV has limited choices for the artists. The range of characters are limited. You don't have much around to play and experiment with," said the actress, who feels daily soap characters don't have power to influence an actor's personal life in any way.

"The daily soap characters are not that can influence your personal life. Being part of a project where the character becomes so popular that experience makes you different as a person. You grow as an actor. You don't take the character home, it does not work like that," he said.

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Comments (14)

Meghna, you rock!
It's always a treat to watch your performances!

10 years ago

Rani is usually a superb actress as over time she has honed her craft but her last performance in Dil Bole was mediocre along with the script.
her chemisty with Shahid was fine but I feel she could have tried harder with voice modulation and body language to make the 'Veer' persona more convincing. Either way she has proven with films like Black that she is capable of much better but it all comes down to the right script/director.

I would like to see her back at the top or at the very least doing good work.

13 years ago

TWITTER ACCOUNT? SINCE WHEN DID SHE GET TWITTER? :O

13 years ago

Rani doesnt have to go begging for roles, her family is in film production, her brother is a producer as well. What a joke! A fake news obviously.

13 years ago

She needs someone like K Jo to give her a hit movie at this stage. YashRaj couldn't do it. She is desperate for work. Whenever an actress is linked up with some director… their career is finished… Look at Amisha Patel. She was linked up with Vikram Bhat and look at her now… giving topless photos to magazine covers. Same thing happened to Rani. She was linked up with Aditya Chopra… now nothing is working for her.

13 years ago

rani isn't on twitter

and Aamir and her is better then her and srk tog

13 years ago

YES PLEASE! I really miss watching Rani. It would be great for KJo, Rani & Amir to do a film!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

13 years ago

rani is on twitter?that is news to me!cz as far as i know she is not there!
n this article is totally confusing..who asked/requested whom part s a total mix up..
<br/>a big thumbs down from me!4 the stupid reporting i mean..:(not to the idea f amir-rani..

13 years ago

this sounds more like a fan trying to boost Rani. Poor reporting

13 years ago

It sounds to Flse for me. I mean ACTRESS GET OFFERS THEMSELVES.
Rani dosen't have a TWITTER ID as far i i think.
She would say "ME" INSTEAD OF "I"

13 years ago

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