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Actress Mahie Gill, who is known for her roles in films such as “Dev.D“, “Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Review” and “Paan Singh Tomar“, says that she has been stereotyped for her sensual beauty for long, and adds that “just looking good” on-screen is “boring”.
Mahie returns in the hardhitting digital film, “Posham Pa“, where she is cast as a Marathi sex worker. Was it a difficult image to essay?
“I am quite hungry as an actress and I say no very easily because I have been getting only one kind of scripts and characters. I became typecast, because people would call me up only when they needed someone to play a sensual woman — someone who is bold and beautiful. Honestly, looking sexy all the time is boring. I mean, I am more than my appearance. I am an actress, a performer. Slowly, I am shifting gear to performance-oriented roles,” Mahie told IANS.
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Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay, “Posham Pa” also features Ragini Khanna and Sayani Gupta, and reloves around the story of two serial killers.
Being a Punjabi, playing a Marathi character for the first time was a challenge for Mahie. “The transformation of the character and how she ages is interesting. She starts her journey as a prostitute, then becomes a house help, and then she has two children. The circumstances she goes through makes her who she is. I loved the character graph,” she says.
Mahie started her career in films in 2003, but she became a household name only in 2009 after the release of “Dev.D“, where she essayed Paro in Anurag Kashyap’s new-age interpretation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s “Devdas“