What's in a surname: Rachita

Rachita Akhilesh Chauhan, who is making her Tollywood debut in Anindo Banerjee���������s ���������Chaplin��������� opposite actor-director Srijit Mukherji, has decided to drop her surname.
The actor will henceforth just go by her first name ��������� Rachita.
Ask Rachita, who has already made her Bollywood debut in ���������Yeh Faasley���������, why she has chosen to drop her surname and she says the reasons are partly numerological.���������The decision was essentially my mother���������s. She believes that going by my first name ��������� Rachita ��������� is numerologically more viable for me. I didn���������t object to her since I also felt there is no harm in trying my luck with fate. Besides, my mom is an ardent believer in numerology and she convinced me to drop my surname,��������� Rachita says.
Numerology apart, this shift will also help Rachita do away with unnecessary confusion. ���������My first film, ���������Yeh Faasley���������, was as Rachita Bhattacharya. Post-marriage, I realized Rachita Bhattacharya Chauhan would be a long name for me to carry. Besides, if I used Rachita Akhilesh Chauhan, there was this confusion brewing over whether I am a Bengali or not. I am very much a Bengali. I come from an Army background and have changed 17 schools in my life. I am a Bengali but have always lived in Punjab. However, I can speak in my mother tongue. In fact, I can read Bengali now though I am a little slow at it,��������� she adds.
Meanwhile, Rachita has also completed the shooting of Kamaleshwar Mukherjee���������s ���������Uro Chithi���������. ���������This too should release in July. I play a colleague of Indraneil Sengupta. When my character gets fired, I bank on him to fight for me. But, I am not a central character in this movie. It was nice to work with Indraneil though we didn���������t interact too much,��������� she says. But Rachita has had a lot more interaction with Srijit while shooting for ���������Chaplin���������. ���������He helped me a lot to get under the skin of the character,��������� she concludes.