Urmila’s year out

The year 2003 is undoubtedly the year of the Devgan dude and Mademoiselle Matondkar. After two totally contrasting back-to-back performances in Bhoot and Pinjar she was all set to appear in two films during the next fortnight, first as a sullen daughter in Khalid Mohamed’s Tehzeeb and then as a victim of a demoniacal deception in debutant

Shriram Raghavan’s Ek Haseena Thi. Earlier the Haseena producer Ram Gopal Varma was adamant on a December 19 release , even if two Urmila starrers in two weeks would’ve been too much to take. But now he has agreed to shift his film to January. What made him change his mind? Just the unavailability of a good chain chain of theatres? The one most relieved is Urmila. “Imagine losing my audiences for one film to another!” While in Tehzeeb she shares the limelight with the formidable Shabana, in Ek Haseena Thi the spotlight shines completely on Urmila. Post-Pinjar India’s goodwill ambassadress flies to Pakistan on December 8 to shoot a music video with Prahlad Kakkar.