There’s much hoopla about women being portrayed as objects of desire on the Bollywood screen. But Aditi Rao Hydari, who is seen in a bikini in Boss , says that there is a thin line between portraying something aesthetically and cheaply. The Murder 3 actress is certain that the scene will be presented well in the film. “It is okay to look sensuous and glamorous. But it is important that the people I work with don’t misrepresent it. I don’t want to be uncomfortable, portray myself in a cheap manner or mouth double entendres. I have let go off such projects.”
Aditi made her big screen debut as a submissive aunt in Delhi 6 and then went on to play a loving wife in Sudhir Mishra’s Yeh Saali Zindagi but the actor insists that she is not trying to change her image. “I am comfortable in different avatars. I don’t like to be pigeonholed.” Aditi says she does not think too much about doing roles she’s convinced about. “People asked me how I did Yeh Saali Zindagi , in which I had to kiss Arunoday Singh 22 times. But I did it because it was part of the characterisation, so with my bikini scene in Boss .”
So are item numbers too on Aditi’s to-do list? She despises the term ‘item number’. Aditi, who is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, maintains, “I would be comfortable with a dance number and not an item number. My favourite dance numbers are Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s ‘Kajra re’ and Madhuri Dixit’s ‘Ghagra’.”
