Ananth When congratu-lated on her re-cently released film Red Swastik directed by Vinod Pandey, Sherlyn says that she has learnt the biggest lesson in her life after working with Vinod Pandey in the film.
"Good roles are not enough for an up and coming actor.
It is very necessary to work with aggressive filmmakers who know how to promote their films.
When I asked him why Red Swastik was not being released in multiplexes, he passed on the buck to the distributors who he said did not book the multiplexes.
Though I wanted him to place my name as Sherlyn, he adamantly chose to give me the name Menka Chopra in the film, because he has this bizarre obsession with the name Menka" Sherlyn says that she now realizes why Shiney Ahuja had sarcastically told her "All The Best" when she had told him that she was working in Vinod Pandey in his film Red Swastika.
"Like me, Shiney also was given a raw deal by Vinod when he had cast him in his film 'Sins' before his Hazaar Khwaishein Aisi Hai was released.
An actor gives his or best to the director.
In return, what does he or she get? The director gives false hopes and plays with an individual's feelings".
Sherlyn asserts.
"I will never again work with a filmmaker like Vinod Pandey.
I am ashamed why I had to mouth my dialogues like a seductress.
Vinod wanted me to overact all the time.
Can't you seduce even without nakhras? At 22, when I can understand, why can't Vinod pandey who is a veteran in this industry understand what the difference between real and fake is? ÿ ÿÿÿ Sherlyn has had four releases earlier before Red Swastik.
They were 'A Film By Aravind' (Telugu), Time Pass, Naughty Boys and Game.
Sherlyn has no qualms to confess that she is unhappy with all her ÿHindi releases till date including Red Swastik.
"I have always been a A grade school topper and also No 1 in all the church activities.
Look at myself now.
I go to bed with tears every day.
I suppose that is the price, which I have had to pay for being na‹ve and stupid.
Yahan log bol bachan karte hain but do not know how to promote their films" It is time for confessions.
Sherlyn confesses that it was immature on her part to have sent a legal notice to a leading evening newspaper in Mumbai when it wrote something negative about her.
"If the media can write negative things about Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, who am I? I realized my serious mistake.
I had to pay the price for blindly trusting my PRO, who instead of advising me to take the whole thing with a pinch of salt provoked me to send the legal notice to Mid-Day." Sherlyn hates being compared to Mallika Sherawat just because she does not mind throwing her inhibitions and is bold enough to flaunt her figure in revealing clothes.
"Mallika Sherawat and I are poles apart.
I respect Mallika because she is a fighter, but I am not trying to be another Mallika Sherawat because I am not limiting my acting abilities.
As an actor, I want to do roles with all shades.
I do not keep track of my kissing scenes in films, whether I have done 17, 24 or for that matter 30 kisses.
I want people to understand that I am not aping any one else.
Why does no one ask me the number of times that I have cried in a film or the number of times I have felt jealous in any film.
Like crying and getting jealous, even kissing is an emotion.
It is the best expression of fondness and feelings." Sherlyn continues.
"Asking an actress how many times she has kissed in a film is like asking a sipahi in jung ka maidan how comfortable is he while firing and how many bullets has he fired in the battlefield.
If Halle Berry or Anjelina Jolie resort to kissing on the screen, it does not bother any one of us here but if a desi actress sets out to kiss, it becomes a sensational news" As an actor, Sherlyn says that she likes to keep on questioning because she loves to get answers.
"I want to show the world who the real Sherlyn Chopra is.
Just because I have had a down-market past in the industry, it does not mean that I cannot do a A- grade film.
I feel I am born to set standards wherever I go.
I was ugly when I was a child.
When I was a teenager, I had no boy friends and preferred to be with books 24/7.
Today I have become just the opposite." Sherlyn has decided not to take things lying down in the industry.
"I want to set up a huge studio model after establishing myself as an actor here in Bollywood and change the face of Bollywood.
I will show that I do not have to dance to any one's tunes.
I believe that true success is when you lead your life on your own terms and do films which you truly believe in."
