Kollywood Hotshots

The actress has been working up whole nights lately, tirelessly facing the camera for film shoots. So, when does she sleep, you ask? The sultry babe has been catching up sleep during the days.

Already on a high after the success of her last release All The Best, Bipasha has been keeping her nose to the grindstone because her schedule is crammed with different professional commitments. Yet, despite catching sleep in mere winks, Bipasha still continues to look a million dollars.

Meanwhile, Bipasha’s first Bengali-starrer ‘Shob Charitra Kalponik’ (also titled ‘Afterword’) was screened at the ongoing Osian Cinefan Film Festival in Delhi on Sunday. A lot of people turned up to see the film by director Rituparno Ghosh and there was an ovation, not standing though, at the end of the screening.

Guess Bips has all the reasons to be happy these days.

An ex Gladrags Manhunt Mr. INDIA 2003 winner and one of the top five finalists of the Super Model contest held in Istanbul (Turkey) in the same year, Ganesh Venkatraman debuted in Tamil with his stunning performance as Joginder Singh in the super hit Abhiyum Naanum, followed by the role of Arif Khan in the recent Unnaipol Oruvan. Just two film old in Tamil, he is considered one of the leading upcoming stars in Kollywood today.

We know that the critically-acclaimed Abhiyum Naanum is being remade in Kannada under the direction of actor Prakashraj. According to latest reports, Ganesh will repeat the role of Joginder Singh in the Kannada version also, marking his debut in Sandalwood. The Kannada version (still untitled) has Golden girl Ramya in the role that Trisha enacted in the original; Prakashraj repeats the role of her doting father.

Producer Boney Kapoor readily agreed when Prabhu suggested Nayanthara as the former knows that she is quite a big star in the south. Even though Boney isn’t ready to say if it is finalized or not, he does say that it is an idea and they are working on it.

When a scribe asked her about her dressing style, Namitha replied: "I don't like to wear saris. If I wear a sari, lakhs of my male fans’ minds will be polluted due to my extra-ordinary sexy look. In fact I'm saving lakhs of my male fans from abusive and vulgar thinking by not wearing saris.”

Namitha also smiled off the query about her having any grudge against the media. The actress has lately become a bit reclusive for the fourth estate.

“You (mediapersons) are all my machans (brothers-in-law). How can I be angry with you all?” she responded with a smile.

When asked about the rumours that she’s shifting base to Bollywood, Namitha gave a straightforward reply: “I would prefer to remain a queen here rather than do small roles there.”

Answering a question about Nayantara’s reported comment that there’s too much competition among some actresses down south, Namitha said, “Maybe she’s right. But I don’t have any such problems, nor have I encountered any.”

This budding actor has a couple of projects lined up, including the Rasumadhuvaran directed Goripalayam and a venture that is to be directed by Selva. The entire arrangements for the wedding are being taken care of by Vijay’s parents SA Chandrasekar and Shoba Chandrasekar, we hear. Behindwoods wishes Vikranth and Manasa a very happy married life.

Surprisingly the turnout was amazing and as usual, she made heads turn as she had a casual conversation and Q &A session with the journos.

She said that this meeting was to talk about her Diwali release Jaganmohini, in which she plays the protagonist.

But the questions were mainly on her diet, dress, competition with other heroines, new films and who is her favourite Machan?

She said that all journos are her Machans and she has no Bollywood dreams as she prefers to be a big fish in a small pond rather than being a small fish in a big ocean.

She also added that she is working on two projects in Telugu, one in Kannada and completed a Malayalam film.