“There are thousands of books on Mahatma Gandhi and there would be thousands more on him because he was a person about whom Albert Einstein had said ‘that generations to come would scarcely believe that such a person existed on this earth’,” says a critic on Pulitzer-winner Joseph Lelyveld’s book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India. So, what makes a biographer a good biographer or rather how difficult it is for a writer to keep his or her objectivity while writing a biography? For an actor though big screen is the final destination,” she curls up in her OBJECTIVE TOUCHīiographies often catch the fancy of book lovers.
TV is pretty good and it is also moving towards an experimental phase. Currently it is TV for Rubina, but she dreams of more. Punjabi film industry is a stepping stone for many television actors. Why not? It is really a happening industry these days.” Given a chance this is the first thing I would want to do.
Being under a contract means guaranteed work, but it also says that we cannot work anywhere else till a particular contract with a show is complete,” says this Chandigarh-bred girl who almost jumps from her seat on the mention of Punjabi movies. “It has its own negative and positive points. Rubina takes a while to open up to this one. So far so good! Nevertheless, there is one thing that the TVwallas are too happy about-being under a contract. She visited a friend in Mumbai, met a few people and got work. Moving on with telly tales, Rubina didn’t have to struggle hard to get into television. And we thought it was the writer who calls the shots in television industry! Did we know the hair dresser on the sets is an equally important personality? Anyway, we use varied products on hair, I wouldn’t want to colour or do anything else,” says Rubina. Besides, while working for television, I cannot experiment much with hair because certain roles demand a particular style.
Thankfully, I have long hair and I wouldn’t want to cut them. We take it one by one.Īs Tressed Up promises to offer the latest hair styles and cuts straight out from Bollywood, we ask Rubina if she is game for the scissor work? She runs her hand through her long hair, smiles and answers, “My mother has worked really hard on my hair. Television actor Rubina Shergil, one of the bahus from Zee TV’s Mrs Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein, who was in Chandigarh for the inauguration of Tressed Up-10, shares some new aspects of telly that are new to us. Now, here are some revelations, television also means binding to a contract and least experimentation with hair styles. We assume you know that television means loads of pancake, metres of Kanjeevaram, weird bindi styles (remember Kamolika?) and gallons of glycerin. Mrs Kaushik’s bahu Rubina Shergill on the long and short of it… Television may be experimenting with many aspects, but hair is certainly not one of them.