Tome Raider

But for now,it is her upcoming release,Shyam Benegal’s Well Done Abba that’s keeping her on her toes. “I play a 17-year-old in the film. I am wearing a starched uniform with pigtails. It is a comedy and we had quite a tough time shooting for it in the heat,” she says. Lamba happened to meet the legendary director when he came to her with the script. “I was so thrilled that Sir wanted to cast me. There was no way I was going to let him down.”

From the time she debuted with Yahaan,the 25-year-old has managed to garner mass adulation. The ardent fans coming up for a chat and shoppers trying to get a glimpse of her reiterates the fact. As we are talking,a couple of boys interrupt our conversation and ask the petite actress to pose for a photograph with them. She politely obliges,after which they remind the actress of their meeting in Bikaner when she was shooting for Anamika. After a brief yet friendly conversation,she chimes: “I love the people in Mumbai. They are very sweet and don’t make you uncomfortable in public,” says the actor who has been residing here for five years now.

Although Lamba believes that comedy is her forte,her glamorous roles in Bachna Ae Haseeno and Kidnap opposite Bollywood heartthrobs Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan respectively were quite the talk of the town. “I have always done films I have believed in and I am happy about doing each of my films,” she confirms. In the same breath she adds,“But box office success matters a lot too.” And looks like she is confident of achieving this through her upcoming films.

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* From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
* Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
* The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
* Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez