She’s hot ‘n’ happening. She’s the eye-catcher and the head-turner. She’s the sex-siren and boasts of the tag ‘bold & sexy’. Yes, she’s Meghna Naidu. This hottie was recently in
Born at Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh and brought up in Mumbai, Meghna neither got fascinated by the glitterati of the tinsel valley nor did she want to pursue a career in acting. Daughter of a tennis coach and a teacher, she was never pressurized by her parents to follow their footsteps and walk the same itinerary. Her interest persuaded her to play lawn tennis and later give coaching to U-12 team in US. Not very studious Meghna gets candid, “It was just for the sake of a tag ‘Graduate’ that I cleared B’Com. My parents never forced me into something. On the contrary, they always supported me in whatever I did. They, like me, believed in the fact that forcing someone always back-fires and that’s why they supported my decisions and were always by my side to push me in fulfilling my wishes.”
Never really interested in pursuing a career in Films, we wonder how she ventured in Bollywood? “I believe it’s just because I was at the right place at the right time. I was accompanying one of my friends to an audition just for giving her company. But as luck would have it, she couldn’t get through and the director Radhika Rao selected me. I was not at all keen for this career option but that’s how Kaliyon ka chaman happened.” With such a smashing hit and the video topping the charts, life for Meghna changed drastically and she got recognition as a hot dancing sensation. She quips, “I was shocked with the response. People called me up to congratulate me and the best part was that my friends whom I had lost contact with called me for the same. I was surprised when one of my friends who had gone on his honeymoon, called me and said that he liked my video.”
Overnight fame brought her to the limelight. Life certainly took a quantum leap forward for her. And for Meghna, it was the turning point of her life. What she never wanted to become, was what she had just entered into. She became a star and centre of the attraction. Wherever she went fans followed. “Everyone loves fan-following; I too enjoy it, really! After all we exist because of them. It is only the audience who decides the future of a star apart from the hard work they put into whatever they do,” rejoices Meghna.
She never went to an acting school but is passionate to join one. With no idol in the film industry, Meghna is quiet impressed by the personas of Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakorborty. She announces, “I am profoundly influenced by their struggle and the way they have attained a place so high in this industry.” Bollywood— where having a godfather means an easy entry into the Industry and where struggle is mandatory and sustaining becomes even tough for those who have no family heirs to pass on the crown, Meghna has proved her potential in such a short span of time. “It’s true that a star’s son will always be treated as a star’s son. But a person with capability, determination and eminence can only stay in this world of drama,” she adds.
With many offers on the cards and new offers knocking every second day, she is very choosy about doing roles in the movies. “I don’t want to do all the movies that are offered to me. I do a movie only when I get convinced by the character. I am pretty choosy in that matter otherwise till date I would have done more than 50 movies till date. Take ‘Hawas’ as an example. I didn’t do it because it was my first movie and I didn’t want to lose the chance. I read the script and mentally prepared myself for the role. Hats off to Karan Razdaan, the director of the film, because I made him wait for almost a year before signing the script,” she laughs.
And about staying in the industry and would she do old granny’s role later she quips, “It all depends on my fate. If my fate is to stay in the industry I would definitely stay. And I wouldn’t mind at all people calling me ‘sexy Meghna aunty’. And even if I leave I would love to be remembered as a nice human being.”
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