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Anita Vs. Natassha
Will it work now?
She is a Balaji Telefilms protégé in both television and films. And the banner is the epicenter of numerology in our entertainment industry - hence the name Natassha with the double 's'. Only a couple of months she had named her dog as Kompany.
And now she is back to her original name - Anita! "This is the name my parents gave me, and which I first used. I want to go back to it! That is what my friends have always called or known me by anyway," defends Anita vs. Natassha. So you see, it is nothing to do with the disastrous faring of Koi Aap Sa.
Anyway, even if her films (except for her debut film Kucch To Hai ), Natassha is playing the female lead in Ekta's Kkavyanjali, her latest in an impressive success record of serials. Her affair with cinema began with Balaji Telefilms' slasher film Kucch To Hai, and except for a cameo in Silsiilay (which went as unnoticed as the film) all her subsequent enterprises in Hindi have involved the Jeetendra khandaan, with Ekta also producing Krishna Cottage and Koi Aap Sa, and brother Tusshar co-starring in her only outside Hindi film Yeh Dil.
So is it going to remain that way, or will she do outside films and serials?
"I have done films in the South," she declares. "My Nuvvu Nenu, was a bumper hit down there. Yeh Dil was its Hindi remake. I have signed Ek Se Bure Do, with Arshad Warsi as my hero, Rajpal Yadav and a new girl also in the cast. It's an out-and-out comedy. As for serials, I am comfortable with Ekta. When Kkavyanjali and Koi Aap Sa together proved too demanding for my energy levels, why should I overwork?'
But isn't it possible that an impression has been formed that she only works for Balaji Telefilms? After all, she is also the only actor who balances films and television both in only lead roles. Does that lead to hesitation on the part of producers?
Replies Anita, "I have not yet begun to get really good roles. I have turned down so many films that demanded a lot of skin show because I was not comfortable with the idea. I also got and rejected multiple offers of 'item' numbers after Ding dong (Kucch To Hai ) and Bindaas (Krishna Cottage ).
"I want to be recognized for my talent as an actor. That is why I took up Kkavyanjali in which I have such a lovely role. Why should I stop doing television if I am doing great roles? And I do not feel that people stop approaching you for such reasons. I think that everything is about luck and destiny. I got my film Ek Se Bure Do after beginning work on Kkavyanjali. But when I was not doing any TV just before this serial I had no film offers either."
A killer in Kucch To Hai, a victim in Krishna Cottage, a simple village girl in Yeh Dil and a tomboy who turns unwed mother in Koi Aap Sa. That's a fair variety for a small film output. Agrees Anita, "I liked all my roles. In Yeh Dil, I was this naive village girl from an orthodox family, and I did not use even an iota of make-up. In Koi Aap Sa, the role had so many shades. The bubbly tomboy of the first half was quite like me, but in the second half, where I turn serious and become an unwed mother, there were so many shades.
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