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A famous and ever smiley-faced personality in Thane - Sampada Jogalekar-Kulkarni, a well-known TV & play artist had free and frank talk with AapaleThane.com. Our reporter Vaibhav Kalsulkar had interrogation with her.

How long you are staying in Thane?
I am a Thaneits. I born and brought up in Thane. I enjoyed my childhood, school and collage life in Thane.

Tell us something about your school and collage life.
I passed out SSC from M. H. Highschool, Thane, and then I joined Thane Collage. I completed B.A. in Economics and Politics from there and I successfully completed M.A. in Marathi from Mumbai University. I really enjoyed my collage life. Collage had given me everything that I was expecting at that particular stage of life.

Did you had plans of making your career in acting from school/collage days?
No. Not as such. I used to or in fact like to read books, literatures, I used to like to speak. So I thought why not to start with the acting as reading and speaking is the basic needs for acting. Then I started participating in collage functions and relatively in Inter-collage competitions for collage. When I was in Thane collage I participated in INT inter collage competition, which was one of the famous inter-collage competitions and many of the professional directors, producers, and actors used to visit there. And fortunately I won first prize as the best actress.

How did you start with your carrier as a professional artist?
First break I got was in Aaiche Ghar Unhache which was Gajendra Dalvi's production then I got Ghar Tighanche Aahe (Mauli Production). One moment came in my life where our team Sanjay Narvekar, Bharat Jadhav, Ankush Chaudary and myself were participating in a one-act play competition. We were performing "All the Best" first time. Mr. Mohan Wagh was judge for it. He like concept and you all know "All The Best" was the record breaking play. After All The Best I acted in Bimb Pratibimb (one-act play) then I got married.

I stopped Sampada for a moment and asked her, hey! tell something about your married life?
She gave a good smile and said Rahul, my husband is very supportive in nature. After marriage I took 5 years gap but only by Rahul's helpful and co-operative nature I came back to the stage again. "Varyavarchi Varat" is a recent drama of mine. Now I am acting in Amol Palekar's "Paul Khuna", Samrajya, Akalpit, Reshim Gathi, Spandan serials.
I am also anchoring in Tak Dhina Dhin (Aantakshari) and Shubhmangal are the two serials. I enjoyed Tak Dhina Dhin a lot because I love to laugh and you must have seen I always laugh in this Aantakshari.

Tell us about your hobbies. How you spend your free time?
I always love to talk. I like reading books, writing stories and poems. I had written a story/play for my daughter's function in school. I like cooking. I never like to spend time in worthless things. I always keep myself busy in reading, writing and such.

Tell us your view about Thane.
Thane is very beautiful and cool city. I have born in Thane so I always have affection about Thane. Even I would prefer to stay in Thane instead in Mumbai.

How you celebrate Diwali?
I like Ganpati and Diwali festival. These are golden moments for me which I never miss. I used to do shopping for me my family, sending greetings to friends and relatives. I am very terrified about noisy crackles.

What you would like to say to our viewers?
Always laugh, share your moments with others, and build contacts that will help you in your entire life.