Do you feel the soap “Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi” has typecast you?
I’m grateful to the audience for not thinking I’m actually 50, (ha ha). Thankfully, I have many other things besides Tulsi happening in my life. So Smriti Irani is not necessarily Tulsi. I think she has become a part and parcel of everybody’s day-to-day life. If people still want to tune in and watch me after four years of playing Tulsi, then I think I’m blessed. In cinema, … if you are lucky people watch you for a month or two. But to be in every house five times a week and to be continuously at the No.1 slot for almost five years, is no mean feat. And to be not taken for granted… Every character and actor on “Kyunkii…” just fell into place. We look like a family that lives and breathes together. Every actor fits the character to a `T’… and TRP, (ha ha). Some people say it is too melodramatic. But with due respect to reality acting, the easiest thing to do is get real on screen. The most difficult thing to do is to make the hysteria and melodrama believable. To have my screen-
