Today is Urmila Matondkar’s birthday and the actor turns a year younger. So, what has been the biggest lesson from stardom? I once asked her and Urmila smiled, “Well, it is not throwing tantrums for sure. For me it was always working on your talent and improving with every film. Actors should be least judgmental because they are all the time delving into other characters, so we must at all times make concessions for the other person’s perspective”. Her characters reflected her argument. Jahanvi in Jaudai accepts the wife’s perspective and Mili in Satya to an extent, understands her criminal boyfriend but it was eventually the glamour roles, Rangeela and Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya that made the audience perceive Urmila Matodkar as a sex symbol, did she agree with the image? “Yes and no because what was created got stuck and what is real very few people know. My self-image is of someone, who has no false illusions about herself, but if other people do, I will not go out of my way to change that”.
I think she is the star to watch out for in politics and it is up to Shiv Sena to use the glamour quotient effectively and grant her a position that she can offer her best.
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