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Bollywood's leading ladies head for a makeover...

By Subhash K Jha, IANS

imageMumbai, April 23 (IANS) Bollywood's leading ladies are heading for a makeover.

Bipasha Basu hasn't only shed oodles of weight, she's also ready to do away with her oomphy image. In Prakash Jha's "Apharan" Bipasha stars as a salwar kameez clad girl next door.

"There're so many girls doing 'Jism' now. It was time for me to do something for a change," she joked.

But it's true. Our sexiest heroines are avoiding skin shows. Sushmita Sen, whose va-va-voom star-turn in "Main Hoon Na" made her everyone's favourite femme fatale, has gone diametrically de-glam in Kalpana Lajmi's "Chingari".

"People will find it difficult to recognize Sushmita in my film. She's totally transformed. And she enjoyed playing the rustic prostitute in 'Chingari' as much as the sophisticated teacher in 'Main Hoon Na'. I've always believed glamour is a state of the mind. It has nothing to do with the brand of lipstick and perfume," Lajmi maintained.

"Raveena Tandon wore crumpled cotton saris in my 'Daman'. She still looked ravishing. Likewise Sush. She remains gloriously alluring even in a 200-rupee sari and the Awadhi dialect that I've made her speak in the film," she added.

So, are the glam dolls looking for a serious makeover?

Priyanka Chopra, who smouldered sensuously as the hotshot business executive in Abbas-Mustan's "Aitraaz", would soon be getting into a traditional nine-yard Bengali sari in a new adaptation of Bimal Mitra's "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" that Rituparno Ghosh will probably direct.

But the most startling makeover on the anvil is that of Lisa Ray, the dishy damsel in Deepa Mehta's "Hollywood/Bollywood". She's all set to be seen as a totally de-glamorised widow of Varanasi in Mehta's "Water".

The challenge of shedding the glamorous persona in order to play "real" characters has always fascinated screen legends.

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