Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
Brand Shilpa
|
Shilpa Shetty on being the first woman brand ambassador for Romanov and more
|
Photo: S. Subramanium
indian first Shilpa Shetty
The tour of her home production, ‘The Unforgettables’, an upcoming movie and an international assignment … Shilpa Shetty has her platter full. Launching Romanov’s new brand of vodka Romanov Red in New Delhi recently, Shilpa said she liked challenges and so, had agreed to be the brand ambassador for Romanov. “It would be the first time a woman endorsed alcohol; I liked the idea,” she told media persons.
To a query as to whether her endorsement would promote drinking among the youth, Shilpa said she wasn’t encouraging people to drink, merely asking vodka-drinkers to choose a particular brand.
“It’s very sad for a family to lose someone to alcohol, so I would definitely champion the cause of responsible drinking,” she said.
The tall and lissom actress revealed she was taking violin lessons for her forthcoming movie The Man with Sunny Deol.
“I’m nursing a sprained neck with the strenuous violin playing required for the role,” Shilpa complained jokingly.
Her home production, directed by Manish Jha, will see her going the action way once again after Dus. Shilpa says she wanted to make a sensible movie which youth could relate to, hence the choice of Manish as director. “He’s the craziest, wackiest guy who can be sensible too, so that’s commercially viable,” she said.
Recently honoured with the Global Cultural Diversity Award by the Next Step Foundation in the U.K, Shilpa explained her earlier statement about having no respect for awards, saying, “This is not a movie award, this one is for being an Indian doing community service abroad. Film awards are more star-oriented and lopsided, but this is not in the same category.”
As her international assignment was still in the scripting stage, she couldn’t reveal more about it, she said.
Denying all stories about her being the next Bond girl, and about her settling abroad, Shilpa emphasised she had refused many international offers to work for and in India.
“I need time to breathe, and am trying to pace out things in my life,” she said.
ZEHRA NAQVI
Printer friendly
page
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
|
