MM.com has an exclusive chat with Amrita Rao and finds out why the quintessential girl-next-door has decided to turn herself into a glam diva, her artist-muse relationship with painter M F Hussain and, of course, relationships

Varun Vazir | MM Online Bureau (May 04, 2011)

 

Amrita Rao

Actress Amrita Rao has been keeping a low profile for a long time. After a long time, her next film Love U…Mr Kalakaar! releases on May 13. The girl with an infectious smile, Amrita Rao who played a role of a girl next door in a series of films like Vivah, Ishq Vishk and Shikhar confesses that she has transformed into a glam diva. Excerpts:

Why have you been keeping a low profile all this while?

(Laughs) It was never a conscious effort. I did not have a single release in 2010 as I was filming for Love U…Mr. Kalakaar!. I was affected by the recession in 2009 and two of my big projects did not take off. One was AB Corp Ltd’s film directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi (of Pinjar fame) The Legend Of Kunal and the other was Ken Ghosh’s romantic film with Neil Nitin Mukesh. I am in the news only due to my movies; I don’t make news of my personal life.

Tell us something about your character in Love U…Mr. Kalakaar! I am excited about doing a role that is completely different from what I’d done in my last Rajshri film, Vivah. I play Ritu Diwan, a young management trainee who is finding her own space in her father’s business. She is a Mumbai girl who is young, vivacious and More >