'Big Boss' leading ladies catfight

By Subhash K. Jha

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she used to in Sony TV's reality show "Bigg Boss", the Indian version of Channel 4's "Big Brother". Actress Rupali Ganguly, the 'cry baby' in the serial, has grown up.

"But you've to understand that I had never been away from home, always a papa's pet. Suddenly, I was thrown among all these people like Kashmera and Rakhi who were far more in-charge, women of the world. I had no choice, but to deal with the situations in the best way possible. And if tears were the solution, it had to be," Rupali explains.

Looks like Rupali has grown up. She does not cry as she used to in "Bigg Boss". "You have to understand that I have never been away from home and has always been a papa's pet. Suddenly, I was thrown among these people like Kashmera and Rakhi Sawant in the reality show, who were more in-charge, women of the world."

She started shooting for a new serial "Ek Packet Ummeed" this week. "It's something new for me from the same people, who produced my last serial 'Sarabhai versus Sarabhai'. Actually, I lost a lot of time because I was waiting for another season of Sarabhai to start. But I'm glad I'm doing 'Ek Packet Ummeed' with actors like Neena Kulkarni and Sulabha Deshpande. The whole idea of being an actor is to grow and make my parents proud."

Rupali's father was livid when she played the "Bad Woman" in the medical saga "Sanjeevani". "To him, my role of the scheming Simran ...