TV actor Shweta Salve’s all-time favourite novel is The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. “It’s a mature love story brilliantly written. The book deals with the protagonist having an affair with a traveller, but the way in which the romance unfolds makes you want to read the book in one go,” says Shweta.
The best paragraphs that Shweta likes from the book happen to be two — where the traveller describes the protagonist while she is standing on the Rose bridge; and when the couple make love on the kitchen table. “It remains with you long after you have read the book,” she says.
Shweta has always been fond of more adult, mature reads rather than the Mills & Boon variety. “I have never read a single Mills & Boon in my life. I don’t fancy mushy romance novels but rather more mature ones,” she explains. Among her favourite authors she lists Danielle Steel, Jane Austen and Jeffrey Archer.
So which is her favourite movie? “Well, I like all genres of movies so it’s really hard for me to pick,” she says. However, she tells us that Pretty Woman is one film that she watches every time it’s on TV. “I know the movie frame by frame,” she claims. So what’s her most interesting scene? “I like the one where Richard Gere shows Julia Roberts a Harry Winston type of necklace and when she reaches to touch it he closes the box shut! The look on her face is just amazing,” says the actress.
Among Hindi movies, she adores Dilwale Dhulaniya Le Jayenga but can’t remember the number of times she’s seen it till date!
Interesting trivia
Pretty Woman
The film is a mushy love story where a rich man looks for an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute. They finally fall in love.
Julia Roberts’ head was superimposed on Shelley Michelle's body for the poster.
The sports car that Richard Gere borrows at the beginning of the movie is a Lotus Esprit.
The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller.
The book tells the story of a lonely Italian war bride who eng-ages in an affair with a photographer from Washington who has come to Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area.
The book is written to seem like a factual event but in reality it is fiction. However, the author said there were loads of similarities between himself and the main protagonist in the book.
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