Colourful women

JESSE Randhawa might have ruled the catwalk but as a student it was not such a smooth walk. As she gets ready for the release of her film Gulaal she talks about an experience with ragging while in college, "I used to stay in Annie Besant Hostel behind Maharani College in Jaipur.


At the hostel, getting ragged by seniors was the rule. They asked me to rub my nose on the floor and dress funnily with oil in my hair and kajal on my lips. But I refused to give in. So they socially boycotted me and even asked boys from the Maharaja College to call and threaten me. I am bold, so I wasn't scared."u00a0

Don't let Mahie Gill's on-screen persona fool you. She was not always the salwar kameez clad Paro that you saw in Dev D. "I was a tomboy in college (Government College for Girls, Chandigarh). Once I participated in a pageant and had to wear a saree.
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I was always in denims so it was a little awkward. But I won first runner up!"

But quite like Paro, even while in college she made boys pine for her. She had boys following her home and not just one or two but a whole gang of 10. She says. "My mother used to tease me and say that you have security that follows you. While on my scooter I used to indicate right but zoom straight ahead. And the boys would have turned right."

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