Asin, Vidya Balan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bacchan, Siddharth, Madhavan- acted in regional films

In India, Bollywood celebs are worshipped as god and people spend a large amount of their income watching films. It is believed that in India, films has cricket as the only competitor in terms of popularity. Even among the films, it is the Bollywood films that are of maximum interest to the people. Thanks to modern technology, there is hardly any child in India today who hasn’t heard the name of Shahrukh Khan or Hrithik Roshan.

Even though Bollywood celebs enjoy immense popularity and fame in their niche market, they also take an interest in regional films as well. Here we chart three actors and three actresses who have acted in regional films.

Beautiful actress Aishwarya Rai after winning the coveted Miss World title, started her career in a Tamil film called Iruvar which was directed and co-written by Mani Ratnam.Later on she also dared to act in a Bengali film named ‘Chokher Bali ‘directed by Rituporno Ghosh.Even though her look in the film was a deglamorised one, in which she had to go without make-up, her performance received rave reviews.

Vidya Balan is another talented actress who debuted in a Bengali film called’Bhalo Theko’.The beautiful actress even won the ‘Best Actress’ Anand Lok Puraskar in Kolkata for her role in called’Bhalo Theko’.She is Tamilian girl and was supposed to star in a Malayam film opposite Mohanlal,but it got shelved mid-way. Later she was signed in ‘Run’ in Tamil, but got replaced by Meera Jasmine.

Vidya has expressed her desire to do regional films, provided it has a strong script and a performance oriented role.

Asin is another actress who has been successful both in Hindi as well as in Southern film industry. She made her debut in Sathyan Anthikkad’s Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka and tasted commercial success with Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi.She even won a filmfare award for the best Telegu actress. She debuted in Hindi film with’Gajini’which gave her both critical and commercial appreciation.

Abhishek Bacchan has tried his hands at regional films by playing roles in Bengali films like Desh and Antarmahal.He played small roles in both of these movies, but both the masses and the critics liked him in these films.

Siddharth is another actor who has done a number of Southern films before he moved on to Bollywood films. He has done strong roles in films like Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana” and “Bommarillu”.In fact, the star thinks that he is the “Shah Rukh Khan” of the Telugu film industry.

He debuted in Bollywood in “Rang De Basanti”where he played the intense Karan Singhania.His role was liked by all and it went on to become a cult film. In his latest Hindi film Striker, the audiences saw him as a Mumbai-based carrom player.

Madhavan is another actor who has done films in seven Indian languages. His first major role was in Alaipayuthey.Later on he did films like Kannathil , Aayutha Ezhuthu etc.Even though his maiden films in Hindi was not so successful, now he has got three blockbuster Hindi films including Rang De Basanti, Guru and 3 Idiots in his kitty.

Asin: The Quick replacement for Katrina Kaif in ‘Khamoshi’!

After the bad news always comes the good news. That’s exactly what happened to director Anurag Basu, who had got the sudden jolt when Katrina Kaif had suddenly decided to back out of his up coming project ‘Khamoshi’.

Reportedly, Katrina had back tracked from the project due to the fact that the director had signed on Priyanka Chopra as well in the film.

But, there were some other reasons cited from the Katrina Kaif quarters. It was announced that Kat had backed out as she had got hold of the rights of the remake of a French film, which she is going to produce, as well as act in. Besides, she was not interested in any double heroine projects. Whatever the reason, the film’s unit had got quite a shock with that one blow by Katrina.

But in bollywood, anything is possible. So, just a day after Kats announcement of backing out, the smart director got the latest bollywood in demand heroine Asin to sign on the dotted line. Now, this bit of news has made Asin go absolutely on top of the world, looks like the lady has suddenly got the magic wand of Salman Khan working wonders for her. Only after Salman recommended her for his film, has the gal suddenly become hot property in bollywood. We hope Katrina is listening!

Salman Khan Film: Asin replace Deepika Padukone?

Bollywood can't loose Asin it seems. After doing Ghajini, which was her first film in Bollywood, she won great applause for her acting and no sooner she was bombarded with offers. Then came her London Dreams. She started off with Aamir in her first film and in London Dreams she had Salman and Ajay Devgn opposite her. But to her bad luck her role went unnoticed.

But Asin couldn't wait so long to bag offers in Bollywood competing with Kareena, Deepika, Vidya Balan etc. So she decided to pull herself back to her territory, Kollywood. But bollywood wants her back..latest buzz is that Asin is going to replace Deepika Padukone in a Salman film!

The grapevine has it that Salman called up the producers T Series and director Bazmee to replace Deepika with Asin. A source added that Salman is trying to bring back Asin to Bollywood as she is all set to go back to Kollywood and act opposite Vijay in the Tamil remake of Siddique’s Malayalam film Bodyguard.