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I'm not the heroine in Heroine Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai's next movie Heroine would see her playing a Bollywood superstar, but she the actress says it would not be a biopic of her own glamourous life.
Aishwarya Rai's next movie sees her playing a Bollywood superstar, but on Friday she said it would not be a biopic of her own glamourous life.
Promoting
Heroine
at the Cannes film festival, the former Miss World -- who has starred in more than 40 Indian movies -- said she will be creatively at the mercy of director Madhur Bhandarkar.
"It's not a biography, it's not an autobiography for sure," said Rai, 37, with a laugh as she fidgeted with her hair. "You hear this today, at the very beginning, so know this until the very end."
When asked by
AFP
how much of the story she could identify with, she teasingly replied: "That's to tickle your fancy."
"I think that is what the viewer will probably be searching for," she added, "but it must always be remembered that the actor does what the director has visualised and envisioned for a particular character.
"I'll be playing a character called Mahi, but it's a character that's been written and conceptualised by the director."
Heroine
will mark the first time that Rai has worked with Bhandarkar, who has a track record of peering into the lifestyles of India's rich and famous with such films as
Fashion
and
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Ronnie Screwvala, chief executive of producer UTV Motion Pictures, said
Heroine
-- to start shooting in mid-2011 -- was a movie written expressly with Rai in mind.
Explaining why he was launching the project in Cannes, Screwvala alluded to Rai's star power: "She is the brand ambassador for India and for Indian cinema when it comes to the French Riviera."
