Coping
with
life
as
a
wife
in
Kathmandu
has
been
the
most
challenging
role
of
Manisha
Koirala's
career.
Then
on
top
of
it
there
are
all
these
rumours
of
trouble
in
the
marital
paradise.
According
to
close
friends
Manisha
is
doing
her
best
to
work
things
out
with
her
husband
Samrat.
The
problem,
say
friends,
is
the
joint
family.
Manisha
is
trying
hard
to
blend
into
Samrat's
family.
Says
a
source,
"While
it's
been
easy
for
Manisha
to
adjust
being
a
wife,
blending
into
her
husband's
family
has
been
far
more
difficult.
But
she's
trying.
Manisha
desperately
wants
to
make
the
marriage
work."
To
make
the
hours
seem
less
stretched-out
in
the
soporific
town
of
Kathmandu
Manisha
has
taken
to
painting.
Now
just
months
after
her
marriage,
Manisha
has
become
a
voracious
painter.
She
spends
a
major
part
of
the
day
at
the
anvil.
Says
Manisha,
"It
all
started
as
just
another
form
of
self-expression.
When
I
liked
the
feel
of
the
brush
against
the
canvas
I
decided
to
get
more
professional
about
it."
Manisha
got
her
self
a
tutor.
"Can
you
believe
it?
My
painting
guru
is
from
Maharashtra!
So
I
go
all
the
way
from
Mumbai
to
Nepal
and
get
myself
a
Marathi
teacher
for
painting."
Now
Manisha
is
keenly
hooked
to
painting.
"It's
more
than
a
hobby
now.
It's
a
growing
passion.
I
don't
know
where
it
will
take
me.
But
then
I've
always
followed
my
heart." Manisha
will
soon
have
her
first
painting
exhibition
as
soon
she
is
confident
of
holding
her
own.
Just
back
from
Goa
where
she
represented
her
first
Malayalam
film
Electra
at
the
film
festival,
Manisha
is
hungering
to
get
back
to
the
limelight.
"I
guess
once
an
actor
always
an
actor.
I
got
an
overwhelming
response
to
Electra
in
Goa.
It's
a
very
different
role.
I
had
to
play
a
mother
and
a
woman
who
has
an
extra-marital
affair.
I
was
advised
not
to
do
it.
But
now
I
am
so
happy
with
the
way
the
film
has
shaped
up."
Now
she's
persuading
the
director
Shyam
Prasad
Raddy
to
remake
the
same
film
into
Hindi.
Back
home
in
Kathmandu
Manisha
has
gifted
herself
a
brand
new
car.
Laughs
the
actress,
"I'm
so
happy
with
the
way
my
film
has
been
received
in
Goa
I've
gifted
myself
a
yellow
Volkswagen
Beetel
car."
Story first published: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 16:10 [IST]