Kelly is my support system: Lara

BOLLYWOOD QUEEN: Lara says Kelly is an absolute support system for her.

      

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After making a successful transition from the ramp to celluloid screens—Lara Dutta separates herself from the rest by simply being the articulate person that she is.

In a candid interview with CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand, Lara shares her journey from being a beauty queen to one of the most promising actresses today of Bollywood. Lara talks about her films, career, the infamous casting couch phenomena associated with Bollywood and her long time relationship with beau Kelly Dorji.

Rajeev Masand: After spending four years in this industry, do you feel that acting is really what you had always wanted to do?

Lara Dutta: Acting was definitely what I was meant to do. And these four years have been an incredible learning curve for me. Actually it doesn’t feel like it’s been such a long time that I have been in the industry.

Rajeev Masand: What really goes through your mind when you watch yourself onscreen?

Lara Dutta: Like many other actors in the film industry, I too am my biggest critic. I’m really a selfish when it comes to watching my own films. Whenever I see my own film, I’m only watching my own performance. But the idea is to look at things where I can work more. I look for areas where I could have done better.

Rajeev Masand: When you look at yourself critically do you see focus more on your looks? Is it fair to say that women constantly bother about how they look more than anything else.

Lara Dutta: Well that is true to a great extent. Over the last four years something that I have realised about Indian cinema is that it represents the mental makeup of the society. A lot of films that I have done were packaged in such a way that as a women actor there wasn’t much to do.