Minisha Lamba _ RURAL CONNECT

Minisha Lamba!

             She's been under the radar for more than a year, but Minisha Lamba is looking forward to making her big-screen return with the Shyam Benegal directorial Well Done Abba, her performance in which won her a special award at the Dubai Film Festival last year. "The film has been screened at three international film festivals so far and has been received well, but now we want it to be appreciated back home, from the people it's been made for, " says Minisha.

           It's been a while since any of her films have scored at the box office, her last hit being Bachna Ae Haseeno in 2008.Did she think taking a detour towards parallel cinema would change things for her? "I'm just looking at doing a good film, a film that touches people, a film with a soul that connects with a audience.  So, whether it's parallel cinema or rhombus cinema, it doesn't matter, " she maintains.

         Working on Well Done Abba was an eye-opening exp0erience, feels the actress. For one, she's playing a village girl for the first time, which is a far cry from the glam on-screen roles she's mainly done so far. "My character is not the stereotypical village girl I had in my head-she's quick-witted and her mind is as razor sharp as her tongue. she wants to study and doesn't want to get married to anyone chosen for her, " explains Minisha. Which, she admits, made it difficult for her to figure out how to approach the character. "I had to constantly go back to Shyam sir for guidance to figure out her psyche. I didn't want his vision to get warped along the way, " she confesses.