It’s been a smooth ride for me in Bollywood: Asin

The Cochin-born actress says she is amused when she is referred to as a debutante in the film. “‘Ghajini’ is my 18th film. I have already acted in 17 films in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu languages,” she says.

“Compared to my contemporaries, I have been selective and even took a break some years ago to appear for my HSC examinations.”

Asin, who is paired opposite actor-producer Aamir Khan in the film which will release later this week, is eagerly awaiting the audience’s verdict.

The Tamil version of “Ghajini” was released in October 2005 and people down south are waiting for the Hindi film with tremendous excitement and anticipation, she says.

On her character Kalpana, Asin says she is a simple, ordinary girl from a lower middle class family struggling to make it big in the advertising world. “If the makers of the film worked hard on the look of Aamir’s character Sanjay Singhania, there was equal effort to keep my look very ordinary and simple, she says.

In the Hindi version, except director A R Murugadoss and myself, the rest of the team is new. There have been changes in the action sequences as well as the climax.

However, my character has been left untouched, she says. “I feel blessed to performed the same character twice,” Asin adds.