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And even as SET is keeping the girl well under wraps (with just
a peek of her hair and eyebrows in a front page cover photo in today's
Bombay Times), indiantelevision.com learns that the lead
in the series is a fresh face named Mona (Singh?), an unknown who
is having her first exposure to television. Going by the way the
sneak peek was offered today, expect a picture of the girl in Monday's
edition of Bombay Times, the day the show launches in the
9:30 prime time slot.
But a caveat here. indiantelevision.com had earlier missed the
mark on who plays the lead Jasmeet 'Jassi' Walia in the show so
we may again be proved wrong. However, the name has been given to
us from multiple sources so the odds are that we're right this time
round.
The rumour mills have been fed with a number of possible names
from the showbiz world but in the end SET and show producer Tony
Singh opted for a genuine "plane Jane" to play Jassi, according
to industry sources. Of the names that were thrown at indiantelevision.com,
it was model and MTV veejay Nafisa Joseph that had the strongest
buzz around it. But in the end it proved a red herring. Among the
other names that came up were Rakshanda Khan (who plays Mallika
in the series) and even recent UK import and Bollywood aspirant
Katrina Kaif.
So what is Mona aka Jassi like? Informed sources say the most striking
feature of the character is that she is not at all striking. She
is no bombshell who is going to have a pair of spectacles and braces
to "uglify" her but your regular girl next door who is tomboyish
to boot.
The message driven home as the series develops will be that beauty
lies within. A line that is reinforced in the banners across the
city advertising the show: "Beautiful women are easy to find, but
there is only one Jassi."
The choice of lead appears to reaffirm just that.
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