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Brand Shilpa

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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.

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.”

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