Shwetta Bhardwaj has no qualms about having her pictures touched up to make her look good. After a photo session, she candidly says, ���Theek se photoshop karna sari photos par.��� Doesn���t she mind that? ���Not at all! Why would I? I���ve been travelling and talking and it isn���t possible for my face to look as chiselled as it is. So, why not touch them up and make me look as beautiful as I really am?��� pat comes her reply. ���In fact, in the West, this is the trend. Even Elizabeth Hurley has admitted that she gets her pictures touched up. People go for botox and various surgeries... why can���t I at least touch up my pictures?���
So she���s candid and hot! ���Let���s put it another way ��� I can be hot. Personally, I���m the bubbly type. I love Delhi and my village in Haryana. I love jumping around. I don���t care how I look or how I���m supposed to carry myself.
Yes, I���m blessed with a good figure, nice hair, decent skin, nice eyes, I need no surgery ��� I���m just perfect. I use my beauty as an added advantage,��� she says.
It must have been that beauty, then, that led to rumours of her seeing
Vivek Oberoi? The two have done a movie together. ���It���s hilarious,��� she laughs. ���I know that gossip about you in Bollywood can make you a star. But I���m not like that. I don���t even know Vivek that well. I haven���t seen him after the shooting of the movie. For some reason, people want to spread stories like that about him. I got the impression that he was a very reserved guy and kept to himself, pretty much.���
Shwetta���s bindaas attitude to tinsel town extends to all the other professions that she���s dabbled in. She says she���ll switch careers if she isn���t good enough.
���I���ve been modelling since class IX. I also taught dance in a dance school, worked in a call centre, in a shipping corporation, in theatre and did other promotional activities for the money. Then I got bored and went to Mumbai. I went with the flow and trust me, I���ll switch to another career if I���m not good. I���m 21 right now and in what will seem like the blink of an eye, I���ll be 30! And in Bollywood, roles aren���t written keeping a woman in mind yet. Yes, if you are as lucky and senior as Big B, people write films centred around you, but with women, that still needs to be achieved.���
It was Suniel Shetty who got Shwetta a role in her debut, Apoorva Lakhia���s Mission Istaanbul. ���One day, Suniel saw one of the hoardings of an ad campaign I had featured in and got me to meet Appu. He then gave me the script to read and I auditioned for the role. I got a call later saying, ���Pack your bags, we���ll leave for Turkey in five days,������ she recounts.
Having finished Loot with Govinda and Suniel, and having also signed a three-film deal, Shwetta has enough work at hand for now. ���Loot is an out-and-out comedy. The films that are a part of the deal are action, comedy and I���m sure the last one will be on an extremely serious subject,��� says the actress. Having done stunts in her debut, does she think of herself as India���s Lara Croft? ���That���s the character Appu had conceptualised for the film and I guess I did justice to it. Appu said, ���Well, you���re like eight on 10.��� And what about the other two marks, I asked him. He said, ���At the end of the day, you are an Indian girl.��� The first thing that Appu told me when he saw me was, ���Nice jacket. You look like the character in the film, go read the script.��� And the next thing I knew, everything fell into place,��� she laughs.
And what does this Delhi girl miss about Delhi? Not very much, she says, but she does miss all the gossip from her modelling days. ���I don���t think I can get back to modelling. I do miss the backstage gossip, though. It was so much fun. Bollywood gossip is nothing to backstage gossip!��� she chuckles.