A model act

According to her, the show is all about bindaas, unlimited fun and masti, though it is exhausting because they shoot three episodes in a day.

In November, the show will go to Delhi, where it will be shot at India Gate. “Though I am on my feet the whole day, I enjoy the show a lot. In the tiredness lies some happiness,” says Ulfat.

In Dil Hai Ki…, Shruti essays the part of Nikki who is a very sensitive person, and good at heart. She is a selfless girl who feels for others and is in love with a guy who loves someone else.

Apart from her television assignments, she is busy with her play Prithvi, written and directed by her husband Alok who used to teach in the National School of Drama in Delhi and now runs a theatre company. The play deals with environment and social degradation in which Shruti plays the character of 60-year-old Amma. Interestingly enough, there are no source lights on stage, for the play which has 30 characters constantly shifting on stage. Each one has a candle in his or her hand. "Most of us neglect environment. Through Prithvi, we are talking about saving it,” says Shruti.

Her husband Alok is responsible for her being in glam town today, as he sowed the seeds of acting in her and has been a pillar of strength. “He guided me initially, and if it was not for him I wouldn’t have been in Mumbai. He gave me the virus of acting!" says Shruti, who actually hails from Dehradun where the couple are planning to open a centre for young people.

Coming back to her television career, the actress who takes life very seriously has a few more exciting projects coming up. There is a comedy called Priya Supriya where she plays a double role — one of a robot, an invention of a scientist. And the other of a pickpocketer. “I play two contrasting roles in the serial. And the whole set-up is very exciting. It’s not clogged in four walls. It’s a moving comedy,” she says. Ulfat is also looking forward to a soap, yet untitled, in which she is married to a businessman, but suffers from a memory loss after an accident and falls in love with someone else. “I am not looking for quantity but good work. I don’t want to shoot 30 days a month. I need time for myself,” she concludes.