Bhatt in SA babe fiasco

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">Ilene Hamann (20), who lives in Cape Town and knows only three Hindi words, is the first South African to star in a Hindi movie. She makes her debut in</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-style:="" italic=""> Rog</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial=""> after producer and Bollywood actress Pooja Bhatt saw her picture on the cover of a magazine.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">But it''s a tense time now for Ilene and Pooja as the Foreigners Registration Office has held the model for not having a proper work visa. "Yesterday, four men from the FRO came to my hotel room and asked me to come with them," says Ilene.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">Later, when Pooja arrived, they showed the visa papers, but the officers said that it was a ‘J'' visa and they were not aware of what that was. "When we called the ACP, he said it was top secret and you will have to come in person. That gave us negative signals. When we met them in person, they said it was the wrong visa; ‘J'' visa is meant only for journalists," says Pooja.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">She then called up the embassy in South Africa who sent a letter, saying that the visa was proper and ‘J'' visa was meant for the media, including actors.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">With all this, the shoot was cancelled and Pooja lost Rs 2.5 lakh. "Today, we could have sorted this, but people from abroad on their own would have been troubled for no reason. We are just creating a bad name for our country," says Pooja.</span></div> </div>