“Debina and I are not at all over exposed since we did not do our job just for the sake of doing it”

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“Debina and I are not at all over exposed since we did not do our job just for the sake of doing it”

GURMEET CHOWDHARY tells JYOTHI VENKATESH

You are now a regular fixture at the Country Club New Year Eve programmers every year along with your wife Debina, though you were one of the several dancing couples in the earlier years. How do you feel?

I feel thrilled because we are being paid to dance year after year. I am very glad that I am able to dance with my own wife Debina in front of the reveling crowds every year and also get paid for it

Debina says that you have two left feet as a dancer. Is it true?
No one is a born dancer on this earth and you become perfect with constant practice. At any age, you can learn dancing and even become a good dancer. It was true till some time back that I had two left feet as a dancer but today the same Debina says that over the years with my diligent practice in dancing, I have become nothing less than Anarkali

Are you a good singer too, besides being a dancer?

When I am bogged down by stress sometimes, I make it a point to listen to songs. Songs whether they are in Hindi or for that matter English and dances lift my moods. I am of the opinion that life without songs and dances is actually incomplete.

From being a dancer with two left feet to being an accomplished dancer on the 31st evening at The Country Club dance, it took you how many days of practice and rehearsals?

It took me exactly 15 days for practicing and making myself more perfect as a dancer.

  1. Since when do you and Debina know Chairman, M.D and CEO Y. Rajeev Reddy of The Country Club?

Both Debina and I know the Reddys for the last 15 years. It was exactly 15 years ago when both of us did our first every performance at the Country Club for the first time and our experience has been really fantastic.

Whose idea was it to have a contest between the DJs at The Country Club on 31st night?

It was Rajeev Reddy who had suggested that we should hold a competition among all the DJs and give away the prizes to the winners among them year after year to encourage them for their contributions.

Debina and you were seen together in the film Khamoshiyaan three years ago through you were not teamed together in it,. Are you both acting in any forthcoming film?

You are right. In Khamoshiyaan, though I had played the lead, Debina was teamed opposite Ali Fazal and did not have even a single scene together. Right now, we have an assignment together. We are acting in journalist turned filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee’s digital feature film Shubh Bijoya

Are you and Debina also part of any web series which are currently being made?

Yes. Both Debina and I are in talks with a coulee of exciting web series which are going to be go on the floors soon after the lockdown period is over and we are eagerly looking forward to be part of the web series too, though we feel that we should be very careful about the kinds of web series that we set out to do, because there are various sleazy web series which are being made of late

Have you enjoyed being an actor in films though young have worked in very few films till date?
I may have worked in very few films as an actor but I have enjoyed the process of being a film actor. I enjoyed being a part of films like Wajah Tum Ho and Paltan. If you lucky enough to be part of patriotic films like J. P Dutta’s Paltan, you get an audience of your own. It is now ten years since we started acting in films. Before films, we were part of TV serials after we entered TV with Ramayan with which we enjoyed a phenomenal run and success as Lord Ram and Sita. The best thing about both of us as TV actors of Ramayan is that we saw to it that we did not get overexposed. The reason I think we were not at all over exposed is that we did not set out to do our job just for the same of doing our job.

Finally, let us talk about the two kids that you and Debina have adopted!

Debina and I had always wanted to adopt kids but our idea was only to help them by supporting them financially, because we are not at all selfish enough to keep them for ourselves. Even now the kids do not stay with us but we go to meet them once in a while and look after them financially and help them in their education.

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