I have grown up in Hyderabad and would like to do more Telugu films: Dia Mirza

Bollywood

actress Dia Mirza will soon be making her

Tollywood

debut with Ahishor Solomon’s

Nagarjuna

Akkineni starrer

Wild Dog

.

The actress, who recently returned from a Maldives vacation with her beau Vaibhav Rekhi was in the city to promote her upcoming film. “I grew up in Hyderabad and it’s great that I am finally making my

debut

in Tollywood,” she said, adding, “The script, energy of the director and the team are what made me say yes to the project. I play Nag’s character Vinay Varma’s wife in the film. And despite feeling nervous about meeting him after twenty long years, I immediately felt at ease with him. I also want to work with Venkatesh some day.”

Dia reveals it took her this long to say yes because nothing interesting has really come her way. “I was also scared because I’m not well-versed in Telugu. But these days South has a lot of actresses from Mumbai, so I felt ready,” she adds. However, the actress points out that while she didn’t feel any different on sets than of a Bollywood film, the number of

women

working behind-the-scenes was less here. “The Hindi film industry has seen a rise in women working behind-the-scenes, but that’s not the case here. On the sets of Wild Dog, the only women on sets were just me and my stylist. Half the crew of

Thappad

, for example, were women.”