Tulip Joshi on balancing meaningful cinema with mainstream fare and life with friend Captain Vinod Nair.
Tulip Joshi on balancing meaningful cinema with mainstream fare and life with friend Captain Vinod Nair
What excited you about your role in Superstar?
It was interesting to work with Kunal Khemu and director Rohit Jugraj. I was also very excited about being back in a a masala movie. My character is multi-dimensional (plays a journalist). So I had to work very hard whether it was observing journalists or college girls.
What’s the chemistry that you share with Kunal?
Kunal is a brilliant co-actor with a great sense of humour. I still remember how nice he was when I used to finish his supply of diet cokes late at night whilst shooting.
Did the lukewarm response to Dhoka disappoint you?
When I read the Dhokha script, I knew it wasn’t going to be a commercial film. But the subject was meaningful and I am proud to be part of it. I bonded tremendously with Pooja Bhatt. She is a wonderful person and a delight to work with.
What is it that keeps you going despite the high pressures of this profession?
I never was and am still not part of the rat race. I know it sounds clichéd. But if I were, I’d be doing 10 films a year. I balance my personal life with my professional life and so don’t feel pressurised.
What is your USP in an industry, which sees new talents everyday?
I can pull off a glamorous mainstream role as easily as I would do an intense portrayal in parallel cinema.
What’s been the influence of Captain Vinod Nair in your life? What’s the best thing that you have imbibed from him?
Vinod is my beacon; he is my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. He is in fact my family and my best friend. He is the reason I am balanced and happy. He is an intellectual giant. Vinod has an IQ shared by 0.03 per cent of a million people. That makes him intelligent enough to be with me (laughs).
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