“I want to work with Salman Khan again” - Bhagyashree
Bhagyashree tells us that she is blessed that she is still remembered as the Maine Pyar Kiya girl, twenty years after the film was released
Do
you
think
your
image
as
the
virgin
girl
of
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
has
worked
as
a
handicap
for
your
career?
Why
should
I
feel
that
my
image
as
the
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
girl
is
a
handicap
to
my
career,
because
of
the
expectations
that
the
film
had
created
about
me?
On
the
contrary,
I
feel
that
it
is
a
blessing
that
I
am
still
being
remembered
for
my
performance
in
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
even
after
twenty
years.
Like
people
referred
to
Amjad
as
the
Gabbar
Singh
of
Sholay
all
his
life,
you
are
still
remembered
for
your
performance
in
Maine
Pyar
Kiya?
I
do
not
introduce
myself
as
I
am
the
same
Bhagyashree
who
had
acted
in
Maine
Pyar
Kiya.
I
cannot
help
it
if
people
refer
to
me
as
the
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
girl.
If
you
go
through
history,
you
will
realize
that
any
one
is
remembered
for
a
particular
thing
that
he
or
she
had
done
all
through
his
or
her
life,
like
Einstein,
Adolf
Hitler
etc.
Do
you
think
you
lost
out
on
plum
roles
because
you
insisted
that
you
would
act
only
with
your
husband
after
your
marriage?
I
was
a
newly
married
girl
when
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
was
released.
When
offers
started
pouring
in
for
me,
I
was
determined
not
to
do
any
intimate
scenes
with
any
leading
man
of
that
time
and
hence
suggested
to
my
producers
that
I
was
ready
to
do
intimate
scenes
in
films
only
if
I
am
paired
opposite
my
own
real
life
husband.
I
did
not
say
that
I
would
not
act
in
any
film
if
my
husband
is
not
cast
in
the
film
opposite
me.
I
realize
that
I
was
too
naive
at
that
point
of
time
to
bother
to
clear
it
up
with
either
the
media
or
the
film
industry
people.
Did
your
films
flop
because
the
audience
rejected
your
pairing
with
your
husband?
The
reason
the
films
Himalay
and
I
did
not
click
at
the
box
office
is
that
the
audience
was
not
in
a
frame
of
mind
to
accept
a
real
life
pair
as
a
reel
life
pair.
Except
for
Abhishek
Bachchan
and
Aishwarya
Bachchan,
the
audience
has
not
accepted
any
other
real
life
star
pair
as
reel
life
husband
and
wife
till
date.
Himalay
and
I
were
too
young
then
and
people
could
not
understand
the
idea
of
a
husband
romancing
his
wife
in
public
on
screen
though
we
took
it
up
as
an
opportunity
to
be
close
to
one
another.
Is
it
true
that
you
are
keen
to
work
with
every
star
of
today?
Today
I
feel
I
am
blessed
when
people
walk
up
to
me
and
tell
me
that
I
look
the
same
like
I
did
twenty
years
ago
in
Maine
Pyar
Kiya
Today
I
want
to
work
with
Salman
Khan,
Aamir
Khan
and
of
course
Shahrukh
Khan.
I
find
Ranbir
cute
and
would
love
to
be
paired
even
opposite
him.
I
also
want
to
work
with
Amitabh
Bachchan.
I
would
be
happy
to
work
with
the
new
crop
of
young
directors
who
know
their
craft
at
the
back
of
their
hands.
I
want
to
be
a
part
of
a
mad
film
like
Dostana
and
a
hard
core
realistic
film
like
A
Wednesday.
Is
it
true
that
you
are
acting
in
a
Marathi
film?
Though
I
received
a
lot
of
offers
to
act
in
Marathi
films,
I
used
to
turn
down
the
offers
because
either
the
dates
were
a
problem
or
the
location
where
I
was
required
to
shoot.
Sometimes
the
script
was
not
to
my
liking.
Every
thing
fell
in
place
this
time
and
I
am
playing
the
lead
opposite
Baharat
Jadhav
in
the
Marathi
film
Jhak
Maarli
Baayko
Keli
directed
by
Bhaskar
Jadhav.I
play
an
innocent
wife
who
has
to
deal
with
a
situation
which
is
beyond
her
control
when
her
husband
is
embroiled
with
an
extra
marital
affair
and
she
does
not
wish
to
lose
him
to
the
other
woman
because
she
is
in
love
with
him.
It
is
a
woman
oriented
family
film.
How
would
you
evaluate
your
growth
as
an
actress?
When
I
compare
myself
with
the
heroines
today,
I
feel
that
I
have
done
only
work
for
two
years
though
I
have
been
in
the
industry
for
the
last
20
years,
because
I
have
worked
in
a
few
films
after
Maine
Pyar
Kiya.
I
feel
that
I
have
grown
as
a
person
because
I
have
met
a
lot
of
people
and
gone
to
different
places
and
been
in
different
situations
and
hence
am
more
fine
tuned,
because
your
depth
f
understanding
and
also
receptive
power
changes
when
you
grow.