Talk:Mita Vashisht

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Please pick relevant info and place only that, and also give the web source as well -(Ekabhishek (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC))

Defending her two films in the face of the bollywood film industry--- an industry that presents only conventional archetypes of female images, she declared

'I think my nude scenes in these two wonderful films are sublime. They present the female body with so much beauty and dignity.... I would much rather appear in the full nude in films like Siddheshwari and Kasba than as gaudily clothed bits of female anatomy, jiggling in front of the camera, the way bollywood heroines are presented in mainstream films....' (Society magazine, 1991)

She shrugged off the art film actress label as well ' I am not an art film actress...(these days, in India), being an art film actress is all about playing a role of a rape victim or a suffering catatrophe survivor, or something terribly tragic, and then winning the nation award for that....I am avant garde please, thank you..!'

Although she did accept mainstream films later, featuring in 'Ghulam', 'Taal', 'Dil Se', 'Pitaah', the controversial 'Oops' and others, she continued to create special personas for these roles---- bringing a finesse and an elan to roles that could have become stereotypical otherwise.

Q. I'm told you're not strictly a director's actress... you sometimes insist on doing things your way..?

A. Meeta (grinning) 'You make it sound like a crime..I'm merely doing my job as an actor... a job I gave up home, security and safe career choices for. Only its not a job, any job. My job is not to be loved and pampered and made to feel like a star by the director. It's about taking a risk. It's about creating that perfect moment when the camera rolls and the choice then is to either create something that will feel like a revelation or to create something safe and banal, before the director calls 'cut'. Frankly I don't imagine how it can be otherwise, not for me at least ...I'm really lucky to have worked with some great directors, realy fine directors...I give credit to the directors of my films for my best performances... at the end of the day, the director calls the shots and you could stand on your head and do it differently, but if he says no it goes out of the window..'

Q. What about the performances you're not happy about..are there any?

A. Meeta Oh a not so good performance? That is probably my bad karma...I chose the wrong film and for the wrong reason.

Till date she has acted in nearly 33 films ---- from the films of Mani Kaul to Mani Ratnam, her body of work spans a huge spectrum of genres and styles and possibly the widest variety of roles that a single performer can have in her kitty. (for details go to www.mitavasisht.com)

Q. 'What do you like more? Your art (sorry avant garde) films or the mainstream ones?'

A. Meeta I love films. I love being in a beautiful film...being immortalized as an image in a beautiful film---I really love the immortality of it. It's not about genres. Each film for me is an individual thing, a new world, a new universe--- and each time if it can create a new me---then I feel like I have been given a new life. I am very greedy for life, and all it's colours. That's why I became an actress --- to live many lives in one life, not arbitrarily, but in sublimation, as an artiste. Only acting allows you that sublimation!

Q Teaching costume design, acting and scripting---to students of fashion design, film direction and acting--- isn't that a bit too diverse for one person.

A Meeta No! I trained in the theatre...all this 'diversity' is part of my training, hard working-ly- but- happily- acquired- knowledge, and the very diverse experience of being an actress in film, theatre and yes television too.