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Kajal Aggarwal is keeping her fingers crossed, as her fourth film in Tamil, the Suseenthiran directed Naan Mahaan Alla (NMA) where she is paired opposite Karthi is releasing this Friday.

After three lacklustre releases in Kollywood and a blockbuster in Telugu (Maghadheera), NMA is a make or break film for her. In an exclusive to sify.com, the lanky and beautiful Kajal opens up

How did you decide on doing NMA?
Suseenthiran came to meet me in Hyderabad and narrated the script. The way he acted out the scenes, it got me really hooked. I felt this film is very different from the regular run off the mill stuff. It’s hard hitting and performance oriented role.

What is your role all about?
I play Priya, a middle class girl who falls in love with Jeeva, a nice guy. How an incident that affects him shapes her life as well is the story. The first half is more about the lead pair. Priya is the typical girl-next-door and in fact I have hardly used make up in the film except for the wedding scene. I have usually played dramatized roles which I feel are easier for me to do than what I did in NMA! Here I was asked to tone down and play a normal girl like in real life. Thanks to Suseenthiran I learnt how to re-act and not just act.

Contrary to the reticent image that she has, Tamannaah is quite independent in nature and a woman of today.

She remains to be the hottest star in Kollywood and there’s no denying that. But the actress prefers to keep a low profile and be extra cautious about the projects she signs- that’ s exactly what’s causing heartburn to quite a few.

Right now Tammu has completed the long schedule of her Telugu film with Naga Chaithanya and is shooting with Karthi in Badami in Karnataka for their next film after the stupendous success of Paiyya. She will join the unit of Badrinath, the Allu Arjun project in Kulu Manali from August 13.

She is pitted to win the Filmfare award for best actress in Tamil and says: “I am so excited as it is the first Filmfare award nite that I am attending"

Nayanthara is one person who has the brain to match her beauty. She has never denied her relationship with Prabhu Deva in media and prefers to keep silent and maintain a low profile and not reacting to any news about her.

To quote Nayan : “I am a normal girl and I’ve tried to stay away from controversies but somehow controversies seem to follow me. I’m from humble background, a completely non-filmi framework and hope that people understand that my private life is truly personal and they should not peep into it”.

The actress met the media on Tuesday (Aug 3) the last day of shoot of Boss Engira Bhaskaran at Binny mills in Chennai before she took off to Bangalore for the last schedule of her Kannada film with Upendra.

Nayan is miffed that a Tamil newspaper has misinterpreted her interaction with the press and has gone ahead and reported that she has not decided to call it quits and will sign few more films in Tamil and Telugu!

Shankar has gone back to Harris Jayaraj for providing music for his 3 Idiots remake in Tamil and Telugu.

This is not the first time Shankar is moving away from his favourite music director AR Rahman, who is over committed and will not have time to provide music for a remake film.

Remember Harris had earlier given super hit music with Shankar for Anniyan. The Shankar- Harris combo is sure to rock, and will be another highlight of the film.