Shweta isn’t good at remembering her steps

Shweta isn’t good at remembering her steps

These days Shweta Tiwari is literally living on her toes, juggling the day between her soap Kasauti Zindagi Kay, Nach Baliye 2 and her daughter Palak. “I have been getting cramps in my legs and my back, neck and joints are paining,” says Shweta who hits the dance floor after midnight for a four-hour practice session and sleeps for a few hours before heading to shoot for Kasauti at 11 am. The actress says although she did have her share of stress and exhaustion while shooting for Kasauti, the past few weeks have been insane. Even her daughter is missing her terribly now. But Shweta is taking everything in her stride as she shoots for her show during the day and practises dance at night.

Even though the actress is a good dancer who has done several shows in the past, she feels Nach Baliye 2 is a different ball game all together. I am used to freestyle dancing and the problem with me is that I easily forget steps. What I learn today is gone tomorrow. And on top of that Raja (her husband) is a weak dancer though he practises for six to eight hours and is improving everyday. I don’t think we are going to last long in the competition because there are some good dancers like Narayani and Gaurav, Hussain, Bakhtiyaar and Yash,” she candidly admits.

The actress might not win Nach Baliye, but she has won over the other Balaji bahus Tulsi and Parvati in the age game. Unlike the other two she continues to look young and sensuous even though she is playing a mother to grown up children on screen. “That’s because I am younger to Smriti and Sakshi by three years. Or maybe with age I have started looking better,” laughs Shweta who started her career at 19, got married the same year and became mother the following year.

A few months down the line Kasauti happened and changed her life for good. “It’s been a great experience playing a character who goes from an innocent teenage girl who falls in love, gets pregnant with Anurag’s child, marries Mr Bajaj, becomes a mother, mother-in-law and finally a business- woman. The character has gone through a number of changes,” she says with pride. If playing Prerna has been an amazing experience it has however, not been without its share of gossip, alleged affairs, arguments and fights with co-actors. “No, that’s not entirely true,” she says. “I have had problems with only Cezzane (Khan) and I am quite open about it. Maybe he is nice with others but with me he is not a nice guy. We don’t get along well at all,” she reveals.

“In fact, I don’t like guys who act very friendly with girls and try to hug and kiss them. I come from a cultured middle class family. I am not a filmi girl and kissing and hugging is just not fine with me. That’s what I told Ronit (Roy) when he tried to act extra friendly. He agreed and since then we are friends. We shake hands, talk, laugh and work and that’s the end of it. I am like that with my other co-actors as well.” As for Cezzane, Shweta says he is not a good person and doesn’t know how to behave with ladies. “I have maintained a distance with him and though we shoot together everyday we don’t even try to talk to each other,” says Shweta firmly.