Actor and TV presenter Mandira Bedi has opened up about how she used to get ‘stared down’ by many cricketers when she used to host pre-match reveals at tournaments just a few years in the past. In a current interview, Mandira revealed that she was made to really feel misplaced. She additionally mentioned that there have been instances when she felt intimidated, however was inspired to supply a brand new perspective by the channel that had contracted her.
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The 49-year-old appeared as a TV anchor for ICC Cricket World Cups within the years 2003 and 2007, the Champions Trophies within the years 2004 and 2006, and the Indian Premier League Season 2. She was one of many first few girls to have hosted cricket tournaments on tv.
Mandira, in an interview with Pinkvilla mentioned, “I was told whatever question comes to your mind at that particular point of time if you’re thinking it ask it. I was given that freedom. Of course, I got stared down by a lot of the cricketers like, ‘what’s she even asking, why is she even asking that.’ They answered whatever they wanted to answer nothing connected to my question and that can be very very intimidating but I kind of was sure by the channel, it was Sony, that backed me and chose me from 150-200 women. They said that we’ve chosen you with the reason we think you have what it takes to stay, so go ahead and be yourself and start enjoying yourself.”
The Shanti actor additionally spoke about her struggles to be accepted in a cricket area of interest circuit. She mentioned, “Nobody accepted me to begin with, certainly not the people sitting on the panel. I’m friends with all the ex-cricketers now who I worked with back then as well but they didn’t like that either. They didn’t like that there was a woman wearing a saree, dressed up, talking cricket. Nobody fed me any lines, nobody fed me any questions. I was there to represent the layperson who doesn’t know every technicality of cricket, who does not know every nuance of cricket.”
Mandira misplaced her filmmaker husband Raj Kaushal in June, final yr. She has two kids — son Vir (ten) and daughter Tara (5). Mandira has been one of the vital outstanding faces on tv. She has featured in movies comparable to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and the anthology Dus Kahaniyaan; and TV reveals reveals Shanti, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and 24. She not too long ago hosted The Love Laugh Live Show on Romedy NOW.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
