Preity talks about her battered housewife role
Preity Zinta has said that even though she plays a Punjabi battered wife in Heaven On Earth, she doesn’t know how to speak the language.
“All I knew was that I had to play this traumatised battered wife. The problem of the language hit me later when I was told about the long monologues I was expected to deliver in Punjabi. As I am a Rajput girl from Himachal Pradesh, Punjabi was totally alien to me,” she says.
She did however learn the language in quick time. Says Preity, “You could call it a crash course, but I only mastered the dialogues that I was required to mouth in the film. Heaven On Earth wasn’t a film about faking emotions. I had to deliver my dialogue and feel the emotions.”
Language was not the only thing that Preity learnt for the role, the bubby actress researched on domestic violence by reading hard hitting books. She says, “I read a really bulky book called This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like and The Woman Who Walked into Doors. The latter is a novel by Roddy Doyle. I also watched a lot of footage on battered wives including Deepa Mehta’s documentary where the children of battered wives speak on the experience of growing up in violent households.”
Heaven On Earth has already been released in Canada and will soon see daylight in India. Preity herself is currently busy with the Bachchan family and their World Tour.
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