Mona Singh Talks About Her On-Screen Makeover In Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi: I Was Very Nervous

Mona Singh made her debut with the television show Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi. The actress has completed 20 years in the industry ever since but is still most popularly known for her character in the show. The actress took a walk down memory lane and revisited the memories she made on the show and recalled feeling ‘scared’ about her makeover in the serial. 

Mona Singh talks about her on-screen makeover in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi 

Mona Singh became one of the favourite faces on Indian television during her heyday as the nerdy, dependable and erudite Jasmeet Walia aka Jassi in the early 2000s. She has fond memories of the show and also remembers feeling scared before her onscreen "makeover" in the much-loved Sony TV show. The Chandigarh-born actor said even her fans were "shocked" when her bespectacled Jassi got contact lenses and her braces and fringes went away. She was, however, happy that the makeover was shot organically.

"It was not like she transformed into a new person overnight. It was well shot. The fringes went away, she got the lenses then the braces went away. So it was gradual. I was also very nervous about my makeover. My first show was 'Jassi...' and I got to face the camera as 'Jassi' which was in a garb. So I was feeling somewhere very protected.” She recalled, "But then when the channel announced that we have planned a makeover, suddenly, I was feeling all those butterflies in my stomach. I didn't know how people would take it. How am I going to be in front of the camera as myself because I'd never faced the camera as myself? All the nervousness that I had worked for the show and for the makeover.”

Mona Singh on working with Aamir Khan in Laal Singh Chadha 

Six years after her first TV show, Singh headed towards the big screen and starred in 2009's superhit film 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani and headlined by Aamir Khan. She and Khan reunited for the 2022 movie Laal Singh Chaddha, the official Hindi adaptation of the 1994 Hollywood hit Forrest Gump. Working with Khan in Laal Singh Chaddha was like a "life coming full circle" moment, she said.

"It rarely happens with actors that you get to do two films with Aamir Khan because he's so selective about the kind of work he does and his movies come out once in three-four years. One really has to wait it out. And it's happened to me twice in my career. So I feel very lucky." Their bond only deepened while working on Laal Singh Chaddha, directed by Advait Chandan.
(With inputs from PTI)