Actress
Manisha
Koirala
says
after
her
cancer
treatment,
she
used
to
look
like
an
alien
as
she
lost
her
hair.
Now
she
is
"quite
kicked" to
play
late
actress
Nargis
Dutt,
the
mother
of
actor
Sanjay
Dutt,
in
his
biopic.
Manisha,
known
for
her
roles
in
films
like
1942:
A
Love
Story,
Agni
Sakshi,
Saudagar
and
Bombay,
was
diagnosed
with
ovarian
cancer
in
2012.
Being
an
actress,
did
she
get
worried
about
her
look
after
chemotherapy?
"I
knew
about
my
hair
loss,
but
was
not
sure
of
my
look.
At
times,
after
surviving
from
a
disease
like
cancer...
people's
look
changes.
All
I
knew
was
that
I
had
to
mentally
prepare
to
fight
it
and
I
got
a
huge
support
from
my
family.
After
my
chemotherapy,
I
lost
my
hair,
eye
brows
and
lashes.
Looking
at
the
mirror...
I
felt
like
an
alien," Manisha
told
IANS
in
an
interview.
During
her
illness,
many
Bollywood
celebrities
including
Salman
Khan
and
Gulshan
Grover
reached
out
to
her
family
to
know
about
her
health.
The
film
industry
welcomed
her
after
her
cancer
battle,
she
said.
Sharing
the
story
behind
bagging
the
role
of
Nargis
Dutt,
Manisha
said:
"Though
I
wanted
to
get
back
to
work,
I
was
nourishing
my
body
and
focusing
on
my
health
as
chemotherapy
damaged
some
of
my
body
cells.
I
was
in
Nepal
then,
when
I
got
a
call
from
Raju
ji
(director
Rajkumar
Hirani).
He
told
me
about
the
film
and
my
character."
So,
how
is
she
preparing
for
the
role?
"I
watched
a
documentary.
I
am
watching
her
(Nargis
Dutt's)
films
again
and
again
and
talking
to
(daughter)
Priya
Dutt
a
lot
to
know
how
she
was
in
real
life,
her
body
language,
how
she
used
to
talk,
smile.
I'm
trying
to
get
all
the
nuances
right,"
said
the
Filmfare
award-winning
actress.
Born
into
a
politically
prominent
Koirala
family
in
Nepal,
Manisha
started
her
journey
in
Bollywood
in
1991
with
Saudagar,
directed
by
Subhash
Ghai.
Since
then
she
has
worked
with
celebrated
filmmakers
like
Mani
Ratman,
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali,
Ram
Gopal
Varma
and
Mansoor
Khan.
Indian
cinema
has
changed
drastically
in
the
last
five
years.
Asked
how
she
looks
at
the
changes,
the
actress
said,
"One
of
the
positive
changes
is
that
the
audience
is
accepting
films
on
experimental
subjects
so,
these
new-age
films
are
getting
financial
success.
It
is
no
more
those
melodramatic
films
in
Hindi
cinema.
So,
filmmakers
are
ready
to
make
films
with
different
subjects."
She
is
currently
going
through
a
look
test
and
leading
a
holistic
life
to
prepare
for
the
biopic.
She
will
start
shooting
for
her
part
from
May.