PAVITRA’S JOURNEY FROM SPLITSVILLA TO REPRISING CHANDRAMUKHI
Pavitra Punia, a Delhi girl shot
to fame with MTV Splitsvilla season 3. She has also done TV serials like Welcome
– Baazi Mehmaan Nawazi Ki and Love You Zindagi. She now joins the list of actors,
who have made their Bollywood dreams come true.
Pavitra has signed her first
Bollywood project, ‘Siddhartha – Love Lust and Peace’. The movie is being
produced by Prabhat Pandey, presented by Onex Entertainment, and is being
directed by, Mukul Mishra. She also gets to share screen space with, director
Mahesh Bhatt (who is doing his acting debut), Shahzan Padamsee and Shivam
Bhargav, who plays the male lead. According to Pavitra, this role is very
challenging one and is a reason why she agreed to take it up. Pavitra is
essaying the ‘lust’ part of the title, her character will be more like
Chandramukhi of Devdas – who will be the lust queen of a region. The story is
of a man whose relations both professional and personal go sour. He takes to
drugs and alcohol and comes to Varanasi meets Pavitra and falls in love with
her, soon realizing that she is a prostitute.
Pavitra is on cloud nine now and
quotes, “I feel extremely blessed and fortunate to have got an opportunity to
start my career in Bollywood at a time where newcomers are welcomed with open
arms. I’m looking forward to my journey and working with the directors that I have
always wished for in Bollywood!”
Pavitra’s debut movie,
‘Siddhartha – Love Lust and Peace’, is slated to release on 22nd August,
2014.
