<i>Sushmita Sen on her role in the remake of “Sholay”</i>

Sushmita Sen in the remake of Sholay

Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen may have essayed a variety of roles in the 30 films in her career so far but says she has found shades of herself in a new character in Ram Gopal Verma's remake of the Hindi blockbuster Sholay.
Sen, a model-turned-actress, plays the role of Durga Devi in Verma's film, which was played under the name of Radha by actress Jaya Bachchan in the original, released in 1975.
Durga Devi in Verma's movie is a doctor and is not as stoic and silent as Radha in the original,” says Sen.
“A lot of Durga Devi is like me. I believe in inner strength and being positive and I don't regress to the past,” Sen told Indian Express newspaper in an interview recently.
Verma's remake of the original super-hit has super star Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of Babban, a modern-day version of Gabbar Singh of Sholay, made a house-hold name by Amjad Khan.
In the original, however, Amitabh Bachchan had essayed the role of Jai, one of the two thieves hired by a former police officer to avenge the killing of Radha's husband by Gabbar. Sen had played the role of a rockstar and a sex worker in her previous two movies Zindagi Rocks and Chingari, the latter directed by Kalpana Lajmi. Sen says she enjoys playing varied roles in films.