Sen Turns Director For Jhansi Ki Rani
Actress Sushmita Sen, who dons the director's hat for an upcoming film about Rani Laxmi Bai, says it was destiny which made her a filmmaker.
Jhansi Ki Rani will celebrate the life of the valiant Indian queen who fought British colonialists during the first war of independence 150 years ago. Sen, also the film's producer, will be playing the queen's role.
"Me directing a film, it's actually
I’m Waiting For My Groom: Sush
"Samsara", meaning world, is a film based on beggars who stay in Laddakh and follow Buddism. The film has been honored with thirty International awards.
Pan Nalin, the director of the film, though has mixed reactions; he is happy because the whole world has acknowledged the film, but sad because the universally praised film has very little recognition in India.
After two years of its release, Pan
Aishwarya Offered Yashodhara’s Role
Aishwarya Rai has been offered the role of Yashodhara, wife of prince Siddhartha, in an English-Hindi bilingual film called Buddha being made by a Paris-based Indian filmmaker.
The star, whose portrayal of Jodha in Ashutosh Gowariker's epic romance Jodhaa Akbar was well-received, has been offered the role by director of spiritual and crossover films Pan Nalin of Samsara fame.
Prince Siddhartha renounced the world, became a monk,
Mallika Sherawat Gets Thumbs Up from Sushmita Sen
The intrepid Mallika Sherawat has an unlikely supporter in Sushmita Sen who is quite impressed with her 'spirit and spunk'.
'I really think she has a lot of spirit and spunk and tremendous audacity,' Sushmita said.
'To have come from where she has and to establish her own identity, and to have that kind of spirit couldn't be easy. But she has done it,' she added.
Tell her
Sushmita Sen & Ashley Judd’s AIDS Campaign
In the middle of next month, Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has a very special rendezvous with the sex workers of Mumbai, India.
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd is coming to town. The two well known stars will join hands to create AIDS awareness in Mumbai's most thickly populated red-light area.
Says Sushmita, "Look at the work that Ashley has done for AIDS and other causes. It makes
Sushmita Turns Snake Charmer!
Beauty queen turned actress, Sushmita Sen, doesn't just dazzle audiences, she charms snakes too. When a snake slithered onto a movie set scaring crew members, Sen didn't flinch - instead she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile.
Filmmaker Tanuja Chandra told a newspaper that as they spotted the snake, which lay coiled at the edge of a dance floor of a