Colourful characters in Jeannie and Juju
Summary: Harsh Khurana, Jhuma Mitra, Jiten Mukhi and Kurush Deboo speak on their roles in Jeannie Aur Juju
Published: Tuesday,Nov 06, 2012 19:24 PM GMT-07:00
Jeannie Aur Juju premiered on SAB TV yesterday. Last week we
uploaded snippets on Giaa Manek and Ali Asgar who play the Jeannie and Captain
Vikram Khanna respectively. Here is what the side characters have to say about
their roles:Harsh Khurana plays Captain
Virendra Lakhanpal (Vela): Vela is Captain Vicky's a colleague and best friend. However he is also
slightly street smart. As per the script there is a healthy competition between
the two friends- he sometimes succeeds and at times fails. I like this role as
it has innocence and simplicity.Jhuma Mitra plays Durga
Chatur Ganguly: She is like a Royal Bengal tigress in
the sense that she likes to dominate and
take the upper hand on her husband. Her husband is a writer who gets influenced
by real life characters. However, he has a bad habit of peeping into other
peoples' houses. Durga's duty is not just taking care of the house but also managing
her husband who is a peeping Tom. Mr and Mrs.Chatur are Captain Vicky's
neighbours and when Vicky comes back from the plane crash we are very concerned
about his health. Simultaneously
Mr.Chatur claims to see a woman there but Durga sees no woman. She feels
her husband is making up stories and trying to womanize- which she feels is not
done. Ultimately as the story goes on we will get to know about the existence
of Jeannie. Despite being a Bengali I am still a hardcore Mumbaikar- so I had
to work on having a Bengali accent in this show. Also I had to practice draping
a saree in the Bengali way. It is always nice being close to your motherland
and that is the closest I got.Jiten Mukhi plays the
boss: In this show I
play the character of the boss who is supposed to be the parallel female lead
Priya's dad too. This role is about a dynamic person who has always succeeded
in life. Nevertheless he believes in the being pennywise and pound foolish. He
keeps on doing cost cutting with his staff. He is a happy go lucky chap in life
who knows about Vicky and Priya being in love with one another and always
wishes that they get married. When Jeannie enters Vicky's life he becomes very
suspicious about him being involved with some other girl.Kurush Deboo who plays
Dr.Cyrus Doctor: I
play a psychiatrist paradoxically with obsessive compulsive disorder. Cyrus is
simply obsessed over cases. He has a complete obsession to find the causes and
what the symptoms are till he solves the problem. He is studying the cases 24 X
7. He also has the habit of peeping into others' business. He does so as he
always conducts experiments with human behaviour. That is why he is peeping
into others' business. However he is a very sweet person as he is the
antagonist but not a villain. It is basically a conflict between magic and a
science of psychiatry. He believes in psychiatric science instead of magic
which leads him to believe that Vicky is suffering from some mental illness. In
fact Vicky's case becomes his greatest obsession, in fact his addiction. Vicky
in fact starts avoiding him. Nevertheless he is extremely caring of Captain
Vicky. He wants to 'eradicate' Captain Vicky's 'mental problems'- however in
the process he becomes a scapegoat and victim of Jeannie. Navina Bole who plays
Priya: Priya is a
rich man's spoilt daughter. She belongs to the South Mumbai kind of crowd. She
wears Western wear as that is usually what spoilt rick kids wear- I think it's
a stereotype which has stuck on in shows, so there is not much you can do about
it. Maybe they wanted to give it a contrast to Giaa's character- she is in
indo-western clothes. I am very jealous of Jeannie in the show. Priya is also a
super possessive girlfriend who wants her way all the time. The jealousy is one
of the moving factors in the show.
Comedy is something that I have always enjoyed doing. So even in Miley Jab Hum Tum, my character was on similar lines where I played Dia. In this show I am getting to pull off a character which has a lot of shades. At times she is really sweet and in love with Ali. Then she is screaming angrily. She has a completely different equation with her father with whom she shares a soft and loving relationship.
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Reporter and Author: Pallavi Bhattacharya
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Comments (36)
gia ur the best actress and cutest ur rocking the show
11 years ago
gia manek aur ali asgar aka jennie aur juju rocks...
11 years ago
Very funny show & Giaa manek is mindblowing as Jennae.. Love u Gia..
11 years ago
I like this show.. Gia is amazing, cute n charming :) Ali's comic timing is an asset for this show, that's why they might have chosen him.. I'm loving both Jennie and juju.. P.S. Personally I think juju is a nice new word, jisse dekhte hi pyar hojaye woh hai juju.. awesome. Hope this show will keep rokking :)
11 years ago
Great Show!Gia u r the best.The show is rocking.
11 years ago
All the best for all the actors.Giaa super.
11 years ago
Loveee the show Giaaa yooou areee amazing Keeep it Up
11 years ago
Jaj z a superb shw...all actors dng gr8 job bt d best part of ds shw z giaa...she z so cute nd adorable 4 jeannie character.
11 years ago
giaa j&j wld take u too great heights and we cld see u as versatile actor. in 2 days so much expression. hope u r enjoying and continue to entertain us.
11 years ago
Giaa and Ali. What an awesome on-screen and off-screen jodi! Good luck to you both!
11 years ago