The lust for Bengali girls in Bollywood has resurfaced so much
that heroines, in some recently released films aand in some upcoming
ones as well, has been cast as a Bengali beauty.
The latest in the line is Sonakshi Sinha, who is back in her Bangla avatar for Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Bullett Raja' after playing a Bengali zamindar's daughter in Vikramaditya Motwane's 'Lootera' earlier this year.
The above picture from the sets of 'Bullet Raja' features the actor in a quintessential white sari with red border with a red bindi and flowers on hair completing the looks of a traditional Bengali woman.
"This is for the second time I play a Bengali girl. The character in Lootera was quite different," said Sonakshi about playing a Bengali repetitively in her career.
Dhulia's film 'Bullet Raja' is a gangster thriller set in the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh starring Saif Ali Khan with Sonakshi Sinha in the lead. Though Sonakshi is playing a contemporary Bengali girl in this film, she can be seen performing a Bengali folk dance called 'Jhumur' that is performed by women in the interiors of West Bengal.
Bollywood has always had a fixation for Bengali female characters in films since Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, but the fetish to bring a traditional Bengali face to limelight has increased in recent times with Anurag Basu's 'Barfi!' that presented Ileana D'Cruz as the quintessential Bengali woman of the '70s.
The latest in the line is Sonakshi Sinha, who is back in her Bangla avatar for Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Bullett Raja' after playing a Bengali zamindar's daughter in Vikramaditya Motwane's 'Lootera' earlier this year.
The above picture from the sets of 'Bullet Raja' features the actor in a quintessential white sari with red border with a red bindi and flowers on hair completing the looks of a traditional Bengali woman.
"This is for the second time I play a Bengali girl. The character in Lootera was quite different," said Sonakshi about playing a Bengali repetitively in her career.
Bollywood has always had a fixation for Bengali female characters in films since Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, but the fetish to bring a traditional Bengali face to limelight has increased in recent times with Anurag Basu's 'Barfi!' that presented Ileana D'Cruz as the quintessential Bengali woman of the '70s.
