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How did you become an actor? I was born in Chennai, but when I was six months old, my parents moved to Australia. We lived there till I was two and moved back to India and lived here till I was 12, after which we did a lot of back and forth till we finally moved back to India in 2007 when I was 21. I actually got my first film Aisha as soon as I came here. I was modelling in Australia. I was at a 5-star coffee shop in Mumbai and was grabbing a coffee to get over a previous night's hangover when I could see someone staring at me. I had not been in India long enough to recognise faces so could not recognise him till he came up to me and asked me my name and said, 'You are a very beautiful girl.' That's when I realised that it was Anil Kapoor as he just said hello, introduced himself and left. Next day, he went home and told his daughter Sonam about me who told him, 'Papa, I know Lisa, she is Karan bhaiya's best friend's (Karan Bhojwani's) girlfriend'. Anil was producing Aisha and a year later, the Aisha team got in touch with my agency and I bagged my first role.
You have not done very many films. How did you keep yourself occupied? While I would love to do more roles like Queen, life has been perfectly busy and perfectly balanced. I have also been modelling, I did a TV show and launched my organic skin care range. I put a lot of emphasis on living life well and am a person who will take five holidays a year.
How much Vijaylakshmi (name of her character in Queen) are you in real life? I met my best friend Yasmine in Australia when I was 19 while searching for a launderette. There is a lot of me in Vijaylakshmi. I don't think she has an agenda in life and does live in the moment in a way. There is no right or wrong for her, she has a kid and yet lives with her boyfriend. She is a quintessential western girl, but not in a typical way. She is just a good girl by heart who lives her life with faith. She is quite crazy and quite clumsy and I relate a lot with her being open-hearted. I feel someone who is open-hearted will always be attractive. It has taken a while for someone to see a Vijaylakshmi in me. You could look at me and say that here is this girl who is hot, but there are so many dimensions to me. If I go to Hollywood, they would not think twice before putting a gun in my pocket, but here they would rather put a bikini and an eye liner and curls. So I think that part was really difficult to get through, but finally, Vikas Bahl saw me in the right way.
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Talk about your family? My dad is a life coach and deconstructs HR departments and mom is a housewife. My parents are both open-minded free thinkers and it's a blessing to have parents like that. My mom is an Australian, but she chose to come to India, work with Mother Teresa, hiked in the Himalayas and was a hippy. That as a choice is free thinking. And for my dad, who comes from a traditional Indian family, just to marry that kind of free-spirited open person is in itself free thinking so their love marriage in a sense itself is symbolic of a certain kind of lifestyle. We are eight siblings from the same two parents and we all live together, barring one of my brothers who lives in Australia. It's unbelievable to come back home to a house full of family and love. We are all kind of the same age group where my oldest sister Mallika Haydon is 30 and the youngest is 18. My mom is amazing, both in her looks and as a person. Everything in my house is open for discussion and everyone pursues their own passion. My one brother is a chef, my two sisters run their ballet school, my one sister is a DJ, Mallika is an artist, I am an actor. It's a really creative house. Ours is a social house where my dad will hang out with my brothers and have a drink in the evening.
What was your lowest emotional point in life? I have always been a fan of supermodels. I went to see Cindy Crawford when she came to India. For me, it wasn't vanity for vanity itself. I was curious about their lifestyle and moved to Australia. I was waitressing down the beach when a friend suggested I try modelling. I tried and became a model. I also became a yoga teacher. I was 20 when I was in a live-in relationship in Australia. The thing that defined me at that time was this relationship, till one day when I told him something he didn't like and he kicked me out. I was jobless and I remember standing on the street with two suitcases not knowing where to go and did not know what I was going to do. I moved in with a childhood friend, but it changed my life. He was very Buddhist and he got me into vipassana and yoga. But I had put all my eggs into one basket. That was the beginning to the rest of my life. I have always put love first when it comes to my career. I am going through what I am going through right now because I want to have a strong sense of identity for myself. Life is not about choosing one particular lifestyle. I want the world to be boundless, limitless and I want to be able to be open to all kinds of possibilities and I know it is very difficult to put another person through this if he is not as free-spirited as me.
Do you see yourself getting married at any point in life? I am a believer in love. Do I believe in eternal love with one person? Yes, I do believe in that as well. But at this particular point in my life, I need to grow up by myself to really know who I am. When you are a team, you surrender yourself to the other person's lap and don't have your own identity. You can always melt into that, which is not super-healthy. So I think you need to have your own identity before you get into that ever lasting relationship.
Karan Bhojwani and you have been in a relationship for a long time. What is your relationship status currently? I am madly in love with him too. I am an adaptable person who is not materialistic and believe that while you could be adaptable, it is also important to hang onto your own and have your own identity. I am very loyal and not a floozy when it comes to love. I am also not good at losing friends or love and in that way I am insecure. Right now, we are not together and need to figure things out. Life can go either way.
Who is your emotional anchor? My mom and my older sister Mallika. Mallika's an artistic person who has spent many years finding out what she wants to do, but someone who never makes any compromises with that and I respect her for that. She is not very social, but is very deep and is a rock who will always be there for you. In contrast, I will be chasing some dream or lying on a mountain or a beach or sleeping under ferry lights under Kabania feeding another hippy, as I too am one like my mom. My mom is more my friend than my mother and will always give me good advice. I am a lot like her. I am definitely difficult to live with. I am very dominating. I am super soft, but very outspoken. I am probably in my house the most loved person, but that doesn't make me easy to live with even though I will cook dinner and will be emotionally there for everybody. I know I am my mom's favourite hands down as the other kids don't understand mom the way I do emotionally. It's actually difficult to cross the barrier and seeing parents as human beings and not parents and knowing that they actually have their own journey, something you need to listen to and respect. I did that with my mother, so she and me have a special relationship. Of course, I feel bad for my dad as I don't know what he got himself into with five daughters who are all nut jobs and are strong high-powered human beings.
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