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Mahie Gill Unveils Her Role of a Sex Worker in ZEE5’s Web Series Posham Pa

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Actress Mahie Gill has often been stereotyped for her sensual beauty since her debut days and her prolonged acting in films like DevD and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster.

Actress Mahie Gill, has been quite popular with her roles delivered in films such as Dev.D, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster and Paan Singh Tomar and she even admits that “just looking good” on-screen is “boring”.

After the success of her well performed web series, Apaharan, Mahie Gill is returning back with a hard hitting digital film, Posham Pa. Mahie for the film has been cast as a Marathi sex worker.

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On being asked if this was a difficult role to essay, sharing her thoughts on the same, Mahie said, “I am quite hungry as an actress and I say no very easily because I have been getting only one kind of scripts and characters. I became typecast, because people would call me up only when they needed someone to play a sensual woman — someone who is bold and beautiful. Honestly, looking alluring all the time is boring. I mean, I am more than my appearance. I am an actress, a performer. Slowly, I am shifting gear to performance-oriented roles.”

Posham Pa has been directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay and will also be featuring other two famous faces, Ragini Khanna and Sayani Gupta. The story of the film revolves around the story of two serial killers.

Sharing a lil insight on the same, Mahie revealed that being a Punjabi, playing a Marathi character for the first time was quite a challenge for her.

She further added, “The transformation of the character and how she ages is interesting. She starts her journey as a courtesan, then becomes a house help, and then she has two children. The circumstance she goes through makes her who she is. I loved the character graph.”

Mahie commenced her Bollywood career in films since 2003, but she became a famed name only after her 2009 release of Dev.D, where she was playing the role of Paro in Anurag Kashyap”s new-age interpretation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay”s Devdas.

Revealing her introvert nature, she mentioned that to an extent this was the reason for her not being pretty visible on the screen, “I have to say that I am to be blamed because I am quite introvert by nature. I cannot make calls to a director and say ‘sir, I want to work with you’. I have no ego but I think I should not disturb people by calling them. I know that is not the nature of the business, and as an actress I should be out there.”

The 43 years-old-actress, further added, “As a teenager I would get a lot of modelling offers in Chandigarh, and people would say I have a pretty face. For me, however, that is not enough to be a good performer. Rather, my theatre training was the lesson I needed to become one. From the time I realised that I am not pursuing my Army dream, I decided to go with the flow.”

Mahie has worked with some of the most famed directors like-Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra and not to forget Tigmanshu Dhulia.

Revealing her wish list on working with filmmakers, she said: “I would love to work with everyone but there are a few filmmakers I admire — like Rajkumar Hirani, Vishal Bhardwaj and Imtiaz Ali. That apart, I would like to work again with everyone I have already worked with.”

Posham Pa has released on August 21, on the OTT platform ZEE5.

Preeti Singh

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She is an aspiring writer and has been into our the domain of content writing since a year. She joined CT as an intern and soon took over full-fledged writing for Bollywood. She contributes news articles for CT and intends to write on diverse issues on Bollywood.

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Preeti Singh

She is an aspiring writer and has been into our the domain of content writing since a year. She joined CT as an intern and soon took over full-fledged writing for Bollywood. She contributes news articles for CT and intends to write on diverse issues on Bollywood.
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