It doesn't surprise us anymore when software engineers, doctors and architects leave their jobs and take risks to plunge into the movie industry. Neha Hinge, Miss India 2010, too is one amongst them. A software engineer and a sports enthusiast, she chucked her job to contest the beauty pageant and won the crown. She even worked in a Bollywood movie before making her debut in Telugu movies. Now the beautiful, articulate and warm artiste is extremely excited about working in director Vijayendra Prasad's untitled film.
Neha gives details about her project: “My character is a girl who just comes back from USA. Being the daughter of a great scientist, she wants to make him proud by doing something he wants her to do; that’s how her journey begins and her life gets complicated. She is attached to her family, has a grey character and also has a history of being a lesbian in the past. There were lot of variations that goes into the soul, lot of levels of acting and I loved every part of it.”
Ask her if she is averse to doing formula films and why she had chosen something offbeat, she says she has always been appreciative of people who narrate different kinds of stories. So out-of-the-box scripts definitely excite her. “In India no one has ever thought of a story like this is. It is a sci-fi story and it is about how to use a thought, in a good way and also a bad way. I sometimes look like a sadak chaap girl and sometimes I am ultra glamorous. People on a few occasions will love me and also hate me. I went through a workshop. I give complete credit to the director; there were days when he wanted perfect light to fall on my face at 5 am and we would be waking up as early as 3 am to get ready. He is a task master; just to see how my hair looks in different styles, would be styling my hair from 8 am to 10 pm. Then he would check those photos to filter in order to finalise my look.”
So which was her best scene in the film? “My best scene is when my father passes away and I cried without glycerine. Crying comes very easily to me as I am a very sensitive girl..strong and also sensitive.”
How does she find Hyderabad? “I have been here in Hyderabad for the past six months, it has become my second home.”
