Former actress Mamta Kulkarni, who along with her partner Vicky Goswami has been accused of drug racketeering has come clean in an interview to ABP News. Speaking to the media after 16 years, Kulkarni claims that she is a changed woman after having done penance for over a decade. The former actress who shot to fame after her near topless cover pic on Stardust in 1993, claims she is today a spiritual person having killed all her desires, be it for films, sex or drugs. See her interview below and scroll down to read the highlights of some of Mamta Kulkarni’s quotable quotes:
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On Her ‘Disappearance’
After 16 years of penance and having explored the spiritual world, I have forgotten that I was a celebrity.
On Bollywood
We come from a middle class Brahmin family. My mother had a desire to act in films, but she had to suppress it, so it had to come through me. I was the victim. Believe me I was not interested in films.
On Her Stardust Cover
It (the Stardust cover) was ignorance, it was a foolish mistake by me. Then also I didn’t believe in what I was doing, I was a child, I was innocent. Someone showed me a photograph of Demi Moore, so I said fine. I always believe in one thing, the dirt is in your eyes. It is destiny. If today I got the same cover back, I would not do it. I have become mature.
On Spirituality
I was not supposed to be in the film industry, I was supposed to be in the spiritual line from the beginning. I was born for that. Even when I went to shoot, I had one bag for clothes, one bag for make-up and a separate bag for puja.
I look back at the 10 years of my life spent in the film industry and wonder why I wasted so much time in my life. Why didn’t god bring me in front of him before? Unlike my contemporaries who had boyfriends, went to pubs and discos, I was totally immersed in puja paath and bhakti during my free time.
On Attaining ‘Enlightenment’
Till 2012 he (Vicky Goswami) was in Dubai jail, everyone knows that. By then my penance was over, I got enlightened in 2010 and that’s why I went to Kumbh mela in 2012-13. I took a bath in December in the Ganges. In 1999-2000 he was in solitary confinement, he called me from there. I was hesitant to take his call. My parents also said don’t pick up his call. One day I decided to pick up his call. He told me “I don’t know whether I am going to survive now, I better kill myself because I won’t do what they want me to do”. I went to Maharaj ji, he looked at me and said “He will come out.”
On Marriage, Sex and Drugs
I have not married Vicky till now. And when you do a solitary penance for 12 years, you don’t like it even if a man just touches you. Do you know how pure you become from inside? You don’t even want a man to touch you. There is nothing like sex. Even if a man stands nude in front of me, it will not make any effect on me right now.
I am not in a physical relationship with Vicky, we are just on good terms with each other. As far as drugs is concerned, I hate drugs. If I have destroyed all the drawbacks within me and if I have destroyed the desire for sex within me, then would drugs tantalize me to do something wrong in life? I would kill myself, and if I know that if Vicky was doing it, I would kill him also. I know he is not doing it.
On Movies and Returning to India
The last movie I saw was Lage Raho Munna Bhai, I liked it a lot. I have no desire to act in films any more.
I don’t want to run from my country, I’m born and brought up there and I’ll be back there very soon. But I’ll come only when he (god) has decided (for me) to come and not because a mortal human being has called me.
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