Mumbai: Smriti Irani is best known as the daughter-in-law of Indian television.
But now the lady is trying her hand at performing for a live audience, that too for a Gujarati audience.
Playing the dutiful daughter-in-law and now a mother-in-law in the soap 'Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi' has sure earned Smriti Irani fan following galore.
So now the lady has decided to don the war paint and test her language skills not for TV, but for Maniben.com, her debut in Gujarati theatre.
"I was looking for a challenge and someone told me that you can't do it, so I took it up," she laughs.
"I was targeted because of my protrayal of an Indian housewife by so-called progressive women. They would say women who wear saris and are housewives are so regressive. This play is actually an answer to all those questions that were always raised on my character of Tulsi, she adds."
Getting her act right while making sure she got her Gujarati right did take some work.
"I speak Parsi-Gujarati which was a bit different in terms that the dialect is a bit different. I spoke pure Kathiwari-Gujarati for this play," says she.
The play, which debuted in Ahmedabad, has now come to Mumbai and proved a point. Be it in politics, on the small screen or on the big stage, Smriti Irani in her form sure has takers.
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