Lillete loves theatre or money?

If you have to describe Lillete Dubey in one word, it has to be bindaas! The theatre person and Bollywood actor is smart, doesn’t like maintaining an image and is eager to push the envelope.

“I can do enough ‘khush raho beta’ type of roles in Bollywood but I don’t want to. In theatre, I can play a 75-year-old or a man. If I stand on the stage with a balloon in my hand, you’ll even buy that I’m a 10-year-old. I have developed interest in cinema now and I have no qualms about playing any roles.

It may be a cameo but it has to be something that people remember me for. I’m not Hema Malini or Dimple, who wouldn’t want to be featured as anything but the central character,” says she. And this philosophy does remind us of her short ‘n’ sexy role in KJo’s Kal Ho Naa Ho . Lillete laughs, “I’m perceived as a serious person and I had to show that I can carry off a comic role. I didn’t mind the role, despite it being a little raunchy. What is funny is that people keep getting back to me with that line from Jism . When Karan asked me to say that, I told him I hadn’t seen the film but I’d do it. And I did it my way!”

This is when the theatre person in Lillete takes over the film actor. “It’s important to bring audiences to the theatre for plays. Earlier, when someone said that they’d write the star of Monsoon Wedding to feature in a particular play, I’d feel apprehensive. Now, I say ‘Do it if that brings people to watch the play’. I am not doing theatre for some esoteric pleasure – I’m doing it for money. If I don’t earn money, I’ll shut shop within a year,” she quips.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com