Lezlie Tripathy. Watching her eyes can kill our vision, letting her into the dreams, might not make us wake up. I cannot say more than this, as she already struck into my sight.
Getting into the details, Lezlie is not a new name, as she already made her debut in Bollywood through ‘W’ last year. The film is a thriller and also thought provoking one. It deals with, how three women have been helpless, after they are raped and the way they took revenge on the culprits.
As the genre is a different one, the artists had a big scope to prove their acting skills to the best. Taking it as a challenge, Leslie as Roohi Malik, owned the character completely and gave a stupendous performance, which is generally observed in the senior Bollywood actresses like, Kareena Kapoor in Chameli, Susmitha Sen in Chingaari etc.
She was even applauded by many biggies in the film industry, after watching her break down scene in ‘W’, saying that, she projected the sheer pain and trauma felt by the actual victims thus, standing themselves out through the celluloid.
Not only in Bollywood, Lezlie even made her debut in Tollywood, through “Chusinodiki Chusinantha,” opposite Sivaji.
Lezlie family background:
Lezlie was brought up in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her nickname is Gogol (named after Russian Writer Nikolai Gogol). Leslie’s family is filled with the educationalists. Starting with her father, Dr.Sailendra Narayan Tripathy, he is a professor, columnist and one of the popular Indian English Poets of the 90's, who blazed a new trail in English Poetry. Mother Ashoka Tripathy is a teacher and brother Shakespeare King is a model turned actor.
Lezlie personal background
The 23 year old Lezlie is currently staying in Mumbai. She can speak English, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. She had an attractive height of 5'5". Even before the films, Lezlie is well identified for her literary works. She is an author of a Poetry anthology, ‘Because I am a girl.’ She pursued journalism in Chennai and actively involved in crusading for Women's Empowerment and voicing support for the voiceless and the underdogs.
Lezlie achievements
Lezlie received 8 governor awards, State Rajiv Gandhi Samaan, Youth Icon Award, ‘Fun Fearless Female Icon’ for her respective excellence in Academics and contribution to Arts, Culture, Social Service, activism against injustice and women's rights.
She is even the editor of PII (Poesie India International) a journal devoted to 'Peace through Poetry'.
Lezlie as the youth ambassador
Lezlie is the youth ambassador for Polio Eradication campaign for Rotary Club Heritage. She has also planted around 550 saplings for a Greener India as the Youth Ambassador of Prerana. She even had an experience of being youth Ambassador for Literary Journal 'Eternity'.
Lezlie is the spokesperson for Welfare organizations like World Vision, Asha, in their campaigns for ‘Education for All’, ‘Green Movement’, ‘Empowering Girl Child’. She has vowed to campaign for women till they have a rightful place under the sun, rather than being used as iconic metaphors.
The current society needs actresses like Lezlie
Along with projecting glamour, Lezlie believes that a movie should even be able to educate the audience and direct them towards a better path. Especially the woman harassments that we observe these days, is very deeply felt by Lezlie.
So an actress who can own the character, she is given for the film, and bring out the liveliness from it, is very much needed currently, as that liveliness can be felt by the audience and relate to the actual facts happening in the real world. So hope such actresses like Lezlie will have better future in the coming days.
By Phani
