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Mita Vasisht: Verve & versatility
She?s just finished Summer Moon, a documentary about the life of prostitutes at a remand home.
Theatre, television, scripting, direction and films, she’s done it all. “But acting remains my calling,” says Mita Vasisht. In the Capital to participate in the Hindustan Times Hungry Hearts Festival, she is revved up about Lal Ded, a play about the Kashmiri mystic poetess. “It wouldn’t be fair to credit the entire production to myself since there have been collaborators at various stages,” she says.
It was Lal Ded’s crisis of identity and individualistic streak which made her take the path of self discovery “similar to what I have been going through,” she says.
Having done research on numerous Bhakti saints, particularly Lal Ded, (which translates into a ‘woman with a hanging belly’ in Kashmiri) for three years, she is grappling to comprehend who this woman is. “May be, after more performances,
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I would be able to know her better,” she adds. She says that ultimately it’s good karma which comes back to be one’s fate. Mita isn’t willing to compromise just to remain in the news or get roles.in Bollywood “But I am not moralistic about it either,” she adds.
Is it goodbye to films, then despite a critically acclaimed Oops? “No, I am doing Sanwari, a small budget film. I’ve also wrapped up work on Summer Moon, a documentary about prostitutes at a remand home. Plus, I’ve finished a script that I am ready to direct.” Didn’t we say she was versatile.
