Namrata's big wish: A film with Mr Bachchan

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">this particular beauty queen seems to believe in the ''slow and steady'' motto. she''s got such films as <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">pukar</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">vaastav</span> to her credit and has some great films in the pipeline. namrata shirodkar is merely bidding her time before she makes that all-important leap in the numbers game. here she spills on her forthcoming films. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">what is your forthcoming film </span><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">dil vil pyaar vyaar</span><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> all about? </span><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">dil vil pyaar vyaar</span> is a romantic musical directed by anant mahadevan and it has madhavan opposite me. it''s being produced by viveck vaswani and metlite corporation, and is a tribute to the late r.d. burman. we''ve taken twelve of r.d. burman''s greatest hits and converted them - with the same tunes and lyrics - but rearranged by his composer, bablooda. it''s an attempt to show how r d burman would have made those same songs today. but they''re not remixes. they''re very simple melodies like his original songs, but the instrumentation is slightly different, without those <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">jhankar</span> beats that you find in today''s music. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">you seem to have a penchant for realistic films. isn''t it true that you are doing a film based on a true story? </span>yes, that''s <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">bandhak</span>. it''s inspired from the true story of an ias officer''s wife who gets raped and it''s about how she fights for justice, how in spite of being a government employee, the husband can''t get her justice and how the woman decides to fight it out. it''s a slightly off-beat film, but it also has its commercial elements. we''re trying to keep it as real as possible, since it is an adaptation of a real life story. the film is being directed by shrey who has a theatre background, and is being produced by showmen international. sanjay suri plays my husband in the film. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">aren''t you doing a couple of films with mahesh manjrekar as well?</span> yes, there''s <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">pratibimb</span> which is a sequel to <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">vaastav</span>. sunjay dutt plays the son of the character he portrayed in <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">vaastav</span>, and since i was his wife earlier, i play the mother''s role in the sequel. but i want to clear this categorically - you will never see us in the same frame together. the mother-son relationship is either only spoken about or shown only in relativity where he''s talking about me or i''m talking about him. and whatever you see of me is with a small child like you saw in <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">vaastav</span>. after that you will see me with a slightly grown up child - who is still not sunjay dutt. the moment sunjay dutt enters the scene, my character kills herself. then there''s also another film with mahesh titled <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">kutumb</span> which hasn''t started as yet. it''s based on the hollywood hit <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">godfather</span> and is being produced by feroz nadiadwala. it has amitabh, akshay and abhishek in it. i play amitabh''s daughter. they''re looking for another girl as well. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">kutumb</span><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> is said to be the entire </span><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">godfather</span><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> series rolled into a single film. is this true? </span>i don''t want to divulge the story at this time. you''ll just have to wait and see. all i can say is that it is an excellent script. like when <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">vaastav</span> was being made, everyone said it was similar to <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">satya</span>, but when the film finally released, it was completely different. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">are you excited about working with amitabh bachchan? </span>i''m dying to work with mr bachchan. that''s been my all time dream and i am really excited about the project. it''s a dream come true. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">any more films in the pipeline?</span> there''s an untitled film with sunil shetty which tinnu verma is directing for producer yusuf bhatt. it''s a thriller, a murder mystery. i play sunil''s wife. also, there''s another untitled film, which is being produced by reelife entertainment for shrabani deodhar. this one is based on a law firm. it''s got raveena, vinod khanna and me as the principal characters. there''s also <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">purab ki laila, paschim ka chaila</span> which has been under production for a long time. there''s some problem with that film but hopefully it should be released by next year. sunil shetty and akshay kumar are part of the film. i play a village girl. </div> </div>