Presenting Ms Prerna
Ahmedabad Times
SHE may be best known for the sacrificing character that she portrays on television but don’t you mistake her as the docile lamb. Shweta Tiwari aka Prerna of Star Plus’s Kasauti Zindagi Kay has different shades to herself. A little too different to accept!
To start with, unlike Prerna, Tiwari is chirpy, talkative, smart and a people’s person. “The only thing common between Prerna and Shweta is the sense of decision-making,” she informs you. “In fact, I love to scream, go on a beach and dance at a disc.
Basically being in a group,” she laughs. Perhaps that’s the reason why the crowd and clutter at the opening of Personal Point Centre in the city didn’t really rub the smile off her face. The doeeyed beauty was “accidentally” discovered by theatre veteran Shahid Latif in a dance competition and thus she got acquainted to the lights of theatre.
“I did plays like Khoobsoorat Bahu, Kirayedar and Sardari Begum. After which Sohail Dattani gave me a break in the serial Rishtey.” Of course once on the small screen, escaping the Kbrigade was just not possible. Thus happened Kasauti… and Prerna was discovered. But isn’t this Prerna act affecting her?
“Actually a lot. People are not ready to take me as Shweta. They think I am this typical, traditional girl which I am not. I have been typecast into one particular image and it can be pretty irritating at times,” says a frustrated Tiwari. Not that she didn’t try to break the monotony of this “simple, sariclad Prerna”. She in fact did a music video for a Daler Mehndi number dressed in skimpy minis.
“But that also failed miserably,” she laughs. Occupational hazard you remind her and she bursts out, “Ya… but I am willing to do different things. That’s why I started doing Yatra (on Star Plus) where I am Shweta Tiwari and not Prerna.”
Her latest venture as an anchor person for Yatra has been accepted, but does that really excite her? “You have to do a lot of research work, you learn a lot and visit new places. In fact, my first visit to Ahmedabad was for that programme,” she says.
At 23, Tiwari has everything — a happening professional front and a happy married life. A step into Bollywood would only be a natural progression. She gives a nod to that but only “for roles with substance”. Perhaps, a Mother India-2. Considering the power-packed performances to her credit, this doesn’t sound too demanding. What say you?