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It seems Amrita Rao is desperate to change her onscreen image. Apparently after films like Vivaah and Welcome To Sajjanpur , Amrita’s getting more roles of that of a simple small town girl.

Amrita Rao takes her roles very seriously. So, when the actress was required to play the character of Kamla — a simple village potter woman — in her forthcoming film, Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur, Amrita not only learnt pottery to get under her character’s skin, but also got a new complexion for her skin, albeit a much darker one. “Yes, in Welcome to Sajjanpur, I will be seen looking much darker than I really am, almost three shades darker than my original complexion,” Amrita told us. “Being a potter, my character needed to have a very sun-tanned look. So, although my make-up is minimalistic, I have donned make-up to look dusky,” added the fair maiden of Bollywood. In fact, Benegal, known to be a stickler for authenticity, personally supervised Amrita’s make-up.
And that’s not all, Amrita was even required to practise pottery in the clothes she wears in the movie to give the clothes a used look. “We wanted the clothes to have a used feel and also I wanted to look comfortable and at ease in them, considering we’re not really used to wearing a ghagra-choli everyday. So I would practise pottery in them everyday and they were washed several times before the shooting. The whole process of getting into this character has been very challenging and interesting. I’ve had to learn pottery, learn a new language and get comfortable in moving around in a ghagra,” said Amrita, admitting to being really excited about playing a dusky village belle for the first time. From the feisty Sanjana in Main Hoon Na to the demure bride-to-be Poonam in Vivaah and from the hottie in Shortkut to a dusky village belle, Amrita sure knows to pack in a surprise in each film.

Amrita Arora took a detour from her healthy eating habits and instead indulged on unhealthy, fattening foodstuff during the recent schedule of Ashtavinayak Cine Visions’ Golmaal Returns in Bangkok. The reason being Amrita's recent weight loss of six kgs, which was highly visible and which went against her essaying the role of a plump girl in Golmaal Returns.

Our source said, “When Amrita shot for a major schedule of Golmaal Returns in Film City, Mumbai and also in Goa, and she weighed around 53 kgs. When she came for the shooting of the Bangkok schedule of the film after two months, she had lost around six kgs. Since the weight loss was very visible, it stood a great chance of affecting the continuity of the film.

So, director Rohit Shetty and the producers, Ashtavinayak, hired a person especially to oversee Amrita’s diet. The person was given the responsibility of ensuring that Amrita doesn’t eat health food, but instead gorges on fattening food. The menu that was served to Amrita Arora consisted of chole bature, Thai food, plum cakes and milk shakes, apart from desserts. Although Amrita could not gain back all the weight lost, in those four days, she continued shooting her scenes and one song, indicating that Rohit was satisfied with Amrita’s weight gain.”

When contacted, Rohit Shetty said, “Yes, I did ensure that Amrita eats fattening food on my sets. I also told her that she should stay away from diet food as long as she shoots for my film.”

When contacted, Amrita Arora said, “The said incident was not a serious issue but yes, Rohit did instruct me to pile on the kilos as he thought that I had lost too much weight. Had I been shooting for some other film, my weight loss would not have caused such a flutter, but in Golmaal Returns I play the role of an average girl who is a little plump. Hence the weight gain was needed.”

The promotional music video of Welcome to Sajjanpur is quite interesting to watch but here is a behind the scene dope. We hear that the leading actress Amrita Rao was not very happy during the shoot of this promotional video. It is believed that the unprofessional attitude of the crew made her walk out from the set.

Receiving three paintings dedicated to herself by the great artist MF Hussain himself as a birthday gift has not only upped her asset portfolio but also ‘humbled her’. However, there are other things that make the girl happy, too. Apparently, when she was shooting in Peru, South America, recently, she was taken aback when a group of locals rushed to her for an autograph, and their mobiles went click, click, click. That’s not all. They insisted that she see the photos that they had of her on their mobiles. “Some even had her picture as their screensaver,” we are told. Now how on earth did this Amrita craze hit Peru?

It was her film Vivaah that did the trick. They loved the movie, and what they loved even more was their Poonam (played by Amu) in it. Wonder if Vivaah co-star Shahid will draw as much fan-following as Peru’s Bollywood pari? Test ho jaye , Shahid?