Amrita Rao to become Shyam Benegal's queen

  • IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,December 15 2011]

After ‘Welcome To Sajjanpur’, delicate beauty Amrita Rao will again work with ace filmmaker Shyam Benegal.

For his next, the National Award winning director is going to bring up a biopic based on Maharani Gayatri Devi and for which the ‘Main Hoon Na’ actress plays the title role.

According to sources, Amrita is a favourite of Benegal and even fondly calls her 'Aamgel Gomti' - meaning 'our beauty' in Konkani. Incidentally, the filmmaker was keen to cast her in his 2010’s film ‘Well Done Abba’.

Amrita was last seen in Rajshri Productions’ ‘Love U...Mr. Kalakaar!’