Sush talks about Ash
- moneycontrol.com
In 1994, this gangly 18-year old took everyone by surprise when she became Miss India and then went on to Miss Universe in the same year. The proverbial dark horse Sushmita Sen made Bollywood debut in 1996 with Mahesh Bhatt's Dastak. She speaks on the media scrutiny facing the woman she competed against 10 years ago.Throughout your career, right from 1994 to now, there have always been parallels with Aishwarya Rai. Now she has Bride and Prejudice, but the kind of media scrutiny, where everyone wants her to keep falling flat on her face, you have escaped that?
I think there is definitely a very huge price to pay when you are as beautiful as Aishwarya Rai is. There is huge price to pay when your entire projection has always been that of perfection. So even if the poor girl does something, as sneeze in public, it's news, and it's bad news.
I, on the other hand, haven't really escaped it. I have had my four years of media thrashing. I have had my share because I wanted to live my life on my terms and that's never easy. I have a lot of good qualities but I would not want to be perfection. So therefore yes, maybe that kind of badgering, I can sneeze in public and get away with it, and it will not make news or it will not be a bad news.
So I really wish that media would give Aishwarya Rai a break because I think a girl goes through a lot of pressure all the time from everybody from the Madame Tussauds, to the world press, to English movies etc. It's just like the world is expected out of Aishwarya Rai. She is just a girl, she will take her time and I am sure she will come out of it.
