She has just returned from the French Riviera, having walked the red carpet at the 66th Cannes Film Festival where she was slammed as well as praised for her outlandish outfit. The model-turned-actress, whose next film Kamasutra 3D is all set to hit the screens, stormed through Kolkata one rain-kissed afternoon recently. In a candid chat, Sherlyn Chopra vowed to remain chaste until marriage, shrugged off insecurities about senior actresses shedding inhibitions and admitted her love for a certain Mr Kapoor. Excerpts:How does it feel to be known as a sex goddess?I do not consider myself a sex goddess at all. It feels weird, I am no goddess. I am just a very ambitious woman who has recently discovered the true side to herself. The true side is that I am not outrageous as I claimed to be. I am just a girl-next-door who wants to succeed in life and who is ready for love, for commitment, for family life and these are exactly the fundamentals, which Kamasutra stands for, both my film and the original Kamasutra written by Vatsayana.
How is the new Kamasutra different from the previous film?I do not consider my film a sequel to Mira Nair's Kamasutra. I have seen Rekhaji's Utsav and Rekhaji's Kamasutra with Mira Nair, both are quite different in terms of the narrative, the treatment. Would my film be any different from these two? Yes. It has to be, else it would make no sense for the director, producer, myself and the entire cast and crew to execute the film. There has to be a novelty factor, only then would it appeal to the 21st century audience. And so there has been a conscious decision to not attempt what has been attempted but to explore the unexplored in terms of the unadulterated content of Vatsayana's Kamasutra. Kamasutra 3D projects sex not as an easy tantalizing sexual arousal but as a force that compels an individual to move towards fundamental living. Accordingly, the film would present the human sexual behaviour not as a result of obligations or preconceived notions but as an extension of true and compelling love. That's what I truly believe or at least have started to believe that real sex is an extension of true love and if it is not, then it is meaningless sex... it is frivolous sex or casual sex, which does not appeal to me and to the majority of the people across the globe who believe in long-lasting relationships.
So have you been through these frivolous relationships or as you call it, casual sex?Of course yes, and so there has been a transformation mentally, emotionally and spiritually ever since I returned from LA last year. There was a time when I was highly promiscuous, when sex was just a source of pleasure to me. But after having returned from LA, I got to know in ways more than one that what is conceived as a form of pleasure is actually something very sacred and is associated with real love and will continue to be associated with real love. Anybody who denies this maxim is living a lie.
Now that mainstream heroines are opting for bold roles, hitherto a domain you explored the most, do you feel insecure?Do I feel threatened? Not at all. I sincerely believe that we are all unique and just because we may look very desirable or hot or highly attractive doesn't mean that we are just the same or want the same things in life. Do I want to be successful? Yes. Do I want success more than being individual? Maybe not. I treasure individuality much more than any other gift or asset. For me, without individuality, I am nothing. I could have been any other person on planet earth. It is my individuality that sets me apart and I have recently gotten to know myself. Earlier, I wanted to be like everybody else but today I know exactly as to who I want to associate with in the Hindi film industry and I exactly know as to what kind of global cinema I would want to do. And so I do not feel insecure or threatened when I read about or see new hotties entering into the Hindi film industry or the senior actresses shedding their inhibitions and travelling the road that has been less travelled. I know what my strengths are. I know that there can be no other than me.
So, do you vow to be chaste until marriage a la Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson?I would not want to get intimate with anybody or somebody who I would not want to get hitched with. So the answer to your question would be yes although I have been the first Indian to have shot for the cover of Playboy and am the face of Splitsivilla season 6 and have signed a film likeKasmasutra 3D, I am yet very old-fashioned when it comes to matters of love and sex, because I have seen the world of promiscuity and the world of no-strings-attached, I now treasure the value of commitment and so I am gonna wait patiently for my life partner to walk into my life and then I would pounce on him and give him my everything.
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