Pavitra Punia, a Delhi girl shot to fame with MTV Splitsvilla season 3 has signed her first Bollywood project, ‘Siddhartha – Love Lust and Peace’.
The movie is being produced by Prabhat Pandey and is being directed by, Mukul Mishra. She also gets to share screen space with, director Mahesh Bhatt who is doing his acting debut, Shahzan Padamsee and Shivam Bhargav, who plays the male lead. According to Pavitra, this role is very challenging one and is a reason why she agreed to take it up.
Pavitra is essaying the ‘lust’ part of the title, her character will be more like Chandramukhi of Devdas – who will be the lust queen of a region. The story is of a man whose relations both professional and personal go sour. He takes to drugs and alcohol and comes to Varanasi meets Pavitra and falls in love with her, soon realizing that she is a prostitute. Pavitra is on cloud nine now and quotes, “I feel extremely blessed and fortunate to have got an opportunity to start my career in Bollywood at a time where newcomers are welcomed with open arms. I’m looking forward to my journey and working with the directors that I have always wished for in Bollywood!” Pavitra’s debut movie, ‘Siddhartha – Love Lust and Peace’, is slated to release on 22nd August, 2014.
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