Motherhood is a blessing, says cookery show host Priyanka
"I am a mother, a wife, a friend and an actor and I don't find it difficult to handle all these roles since my little son Sahoj has made me calmer and a multi-tasker. Yes, I am happy to be the host of a household on the sets as a woman who performs the same role at kitchen.
"If you have the roles defined and demarcated and if there is respect and regard from your team and you enjoy your job then you can deliver from 'Ebar Jalsha Rannaghare Festival Special' reality show hosting to posing before camera in big time projects (in Rajkahini and Bomkesh)," Priyanka tells this IBNS correspondent.
"It is the issue of extending your comfort zone from your home to the sets of TV shows or film outdoors. It is about how you get to enjoy your work and yes it happened since my son has grown up a bit from a baby. But he is too small. He is again my great stress-buster," Priyanka says in between shots with Bigg Boss Bangla 2014 winner and popular singer Anik Dhar on location of the cookery show shoot..
The chirpy actor, whose first feature film 'Chirodini Tumi Je Amar' had catapulted her to fame years back and tied the nuptials with co-actor Rahul later on, says after marriage and motherhood she is relishing the second innings of her career in showbiz where she gets to work from big-time directors like Anjan Dutt and Srijit Mukherjee to Atanu Ghosh (in Abby Sen) and 'Jenny & Dipayan' (in Amar Sahor).
"The most important part is how you connect with the audience. They should enjoy while viewing, they should like you. And interestingly from serial to films, I am lucky to have been offered so varied roles," Priyanka says.
With the Jalsha Rannaghare show festival special, to be aired from Sept 27, all set to divide viewers' attention between pandal hopping and being couch-struck at drawing room on the four-five days, Priyanka says apart from pandal hopping puja is also all about adda and yes watching telly and movies.
"Puja means all these to every Kolkatan. Watching serials has never taken a back seat in puja, nor cinema," Priyanka, who will be holidaying in Andamans during the five days, signs off.
Actor Anik Dhar, who terms Priyanka and everyone else on the sets as long-time friends, turns up in a special episode and equates the 'home away home' experience with his stint in Bigg Boss Bangla.
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