Durga Of Aag Is More Like Me: Sushmita Sen
August 20, 2007
Bollywood actor Sushmita Sen says she found shades of herself in a new character she plays in an updated version of the Bollywood classic “Sholay”.
Sen says her character, Durga Devi, is a more vocal, modern woman than Radha, the character veteran actress Jaya Bachchan made famous in the 1975 original.
“Durga is today’s woman. She is a doctor, not as silent as Radha, ” Sen told in an interview.
“A lot of her is like me, ” said Sen. “I believe in inner strength and being positive and I don’t regress to the past. ”
In the remake being directed by well-known filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, Amitabh Bachchan plays Babban, a modern-day version of the bandit boss. The new movie centers on Babban’s clash with the police.
Sen, a model-turned-actress, was crowned Miss Universe in 1994 and has since acted in 30 Hindi language movies.
Sen played a rock star in her last film, “Zindagi Rocks” and a prostitute in an earlier movie “Chingari, ” in Hindi, and says she enjoys playing a variety of characters.
“When I choose a character, I want to do things that I haven’t done as Sushmita,” Sen said in the interview.
