Amisha Patel becomes pop singer in new movie

Amisha becomes pop singer in new movie

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Bombay : With three mega-hits behind her, Bollywood actress Amisha Patel is hoping to sway cinema lovers with her emotional portrayal of a pop singer who discovers that she is not the real daughter of her rich parents.

Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar is a small- budget film by director Tanuja Chandra starring Patel with newcomer Jimmy Shergill cast in the romantic lead as an unscrupulous newspaper editor.

The story is about a singer who learns from a newspaper article that her parents had adopted her and launches a search for the mother who abandoned her as a child.

The editor has dug out juicy secrets from her past to boost the sales of his paper. Eventually, he turns over a new leaf and falls in love with the singer when he realizes that to publish the truth in the newspaper is a responsible job.

"It's a woman-oriented story. It raises issues like ethics in journalism," Chandra, one of Bollywood's few female directors, said.

The movie's screenplay was written by Bollywood's most outspoken film-maker Mahesh Bhatt.

Patel plays the shattered woman in search of her mother and discovers the bitter truth of her past, said Chandra who is busy tying up loose ends of the film set for release on October 26.

"I like women's stories. The film has a strong plot, it also has a kind of sweetness in places with melodious music," she said.

The film will be Patel's fourth since she made her debut in the industry two years ago and delivered three box-office hits in a row -- the romantic Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, a Telugu language film Badri and the recent Gadar-Ek Prem Katha.

All the films had Patel as the lead actress but did not turn her into a household name.

"It's unfortunate... but Amisha is youthful, intelligent and hardworking," said Chandra.

The director said preferred working with newcomers or those less established in films because they had more drive and were easier on the set.

"They have no starry airs about them. There's something they want to achieve. They'll give everything they've got," said the director whose earlier productions include Dushman and Sangharsh.