Blast from the past “Honestly, I tell you - I haven't had a single affair up to this date.” – Kalpana Iyer

Critics accuse her of vulgarising the cabaret; heroines dismiss her as a temporary survivor on sheer sex power; but heroes pant at and after her hip-wriggles, stripping and bad games! KALPANA IYER knows that her figure is her fortune, and flaunts it (on and offscreen) to the ‘barest’ maximum to make it pay – in cash and kind!

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Whatever happened to the tall announcements you made about switching over from dancing to acting roles, two years ago? Are you so minus talent that you couldn’t bag even the smallest of roles? Even Sheetal gets more lines to deliver (‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’) in her films than you?

You see, I happen to be a very pushy girl. I’m not in the habit of waiting, but in the habit of grabbing all that comes my way. People seem to have forgotten that I did start my career as an actress in ‘Manokamna’. But after that film, I was not very willing to wait. So as soon as Dev Anand, the lovable person that he is, offered me a dance number in “Lootmaar’ (because Simple Kapadia couldn’t dance for mailto:hudz.in15@ gmail.com nuts), I grabbed it without batting an eyelid, completely ignoring all those who tried to stop me from doing it. And now I’m glad I did it, because ever since ‘Lootmaar’, I’ve been signing film after film and am being very much appreciated and applauded for all my dance numbers. I’m sure this wouldn’t have been the case if I had waited for acting roles to come my way. And if you call Sheetal’s role in ‘Satyam…” acting, well, then I’m glad that I’m not acting! I’d rather stick to my dance-numbers. Incidentally, I do have a few very good and important roles to my credit, like ‘YehRishta Na Toote’, ‘Vardaan’, ‘Dil Tujhko Diya’, where I am not doing any dance-numbers!