She is one of TV's most loved bahus today. But actor Ankita Lokhande
is anything but coy and submissive in real life. Dating her onscreen
husband Manav in the serial Pavitra Rishta, Sushant Singh Rajput, Ankita
does not mince words when speaking on any subject.
Says Ankita, "I owe everything in my life today to Pavitra Rishta. Be
it the name, fame money and also Sushant! I got all of them from the
show. I might be working 12 hours every day, but I love it like that
now." She's quick to point out though that she's totally different from
her on-screen avatar Archana. "I am quite different in real life, but I
love playing Archana nevertheless. What makes me most happy is when
young girls tell me how they wish to be like Archana," she says.
What's
it like working with Ekta Kapoor,her show producer, who's said to be a
demanding boss?"Ekta is a very nice person.She's a very good story
teller. You should observe her and hear her when she narrates the
script' I feel she has it in her to act. But I respect her more for the
fact that she has foresight and understands what an audience wants. In
fact, it didn't matter to her that Sushant had been rejected by many,
she just felt that he was perfectly suited for Manav's role and stood by
that belief. I can completely understand if she gets angry when people
fail to understand her vision as she's very clear in her mind about what
she wants. She truly deserves where she's today."
It's impossible
to not ask her about boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput. "We both love
maintaining low profile. And that's why it took a Jhalak Dikhla Jaa to
bring our more-than-2-year-old relationship out in the open," says
Lokhande.
When asked to describe Sushant as a boyfriend, Ankita
says, "He's a romantic and pampers me a lot. In fact, there are lots of
similarities between him and Manav, the character that he plays on TV.
He's shy and soft-spoken, but of late he's learning to express his
feelings better than before."
But most feel that him proposing
marriage to her on national TV was gimmicky? "Firstly, Sushant proposing
came as a surprise to me as he's always been too shy about such
matters. And secondly, we aren't the kinds to do things just for
publicity," the girlfriend in Ankita comes to the fore
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