‘Everyone fantasises about a film star’

While we are in the middle of our photoshoot in a leading city club, we hear murmurs of ‘You are Kaveri right?’ as a motley bunch of teens and Nidhi Seth young women hover around prime time television’s rising star Nidhi Seth, who’s striking a picture-perfect pose for our lensman.

Even if her prime time daily went off air a few weeks ago, Nidhi continues to be remembered for her onscreen persona. An Amdavadi by birth, Nidhi was home recently taking a break from her gruelling work schedule in Mumbai. A student of St Kabir School and a graduate from Som Lalit, Nidhi misses Ahmedabad. “I celebrated Uttrayan here and went on a trip with my family to Vaishno Devi, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir. It feels great to be home — away from all work. I miss the festive fervour of Navratri a lot,” says Nidhi who is getting used to living in Mumbai — the city which never sleeps.

Now that her show’s gone off air, what exactly is she busy with? “Well, there are talks with a leading channel and I might be a part of a series of 13 episode-show — a fiction show which will include thrill, suspense and action. It will be directed by various Bollywood directors. I might work for Mahesh Manjrekar’s episodes,” she elaborates.

Nidhi who’s played important roles in a slew of shows (melodrama, romance and horror) feels she’s good at comedy too. “Apart from regular shows, I want to do comic cameos but not reality comedy shows. I would also love to try my hands at doing action,” shares Nidhi who’s also a yellow belt in karate.

A trained dancer, Nidhi learnt “classical dance from Mrinalini Sarabhai’s dance academy. Music, rhythm and beats are in my blood. I am very comfortable dancing. When I was in school, I had participated in a dance-based reality show on television.”
Like all television stars, Nidhi too, has Bollywood dreams. She admits that the magic of the big screen and all that adulation that a movie star gets is addictive. “The woman in a TV show is an ideal mum, wife, daughter. Everyone fantasises about the woman in a film — she’s the epitome of beauty, oomph. In fact, everything from the canvas to the medium, mode of work of films and television is different. TV also has time constraints — we don’t have episode banks and work round the clock. That really affects the quality of work and we hardly get time to improve on our performances. Films bring out the best in you — actors are expected to be at their best in films.”

For now though, Nidhi is “reading film scripts”, is in the process of “finalising” a film project, working on her telly soaps and taking quick breaks. Not necessarily in that order though!

Source: Timeofindia

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