Steamy Hot Heroine Frieda Pinto to be seen in Multi-Lingual Movie

There is apparently still hope for Freida Pinto in India.

The Slumdog Millionaire actress whose last release, the 3-D Hollywood fantasy Immortals, had an unceremonious death at the hands of critics here, is next going to be seen in the Michal Winterbottom-directed British drama Trishna. And its Bollywood co-producer Sunil Bohra has dubbed Trishna in eight Indian languages mainly because the film has Freida doing some real steamy scenes with British actor Riz Ahmed in what might be her most challenging role yet.
Trishna, incidentally, is Winterbottom’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles and was shot in Jaipur and Mumbai. Freida plays Hardy’s timeless and tragic heroine Tess. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.

There have already been some highly-acclaimed versions of Tess adapted to the screen including Rajeev Kapoor’s Prem Granth in Hindi, where Madhuri Dixit played the long-suffering woman. But Trishna by Winterbottom is supposedly the steamiest adaptation of Hardy’s novel to date and has Freida playing a Rajasthani girl in a lustful liaison with Riz Ahmed’s British NRI character on a visit to India to revive his father’s business in Jodhpur. The actor incidentally is currently shooting Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Delhi.

Sunil Bohra went ahead and dubbed the film in eight Indian languages to cash in on its steamy quotient. Freida, naturally, loves the idea of being multi-lingual on screen because she will be seen in Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Kannada versions of Trishna. She always wanted to be part of cinema that reaches a wide group of audiences and not just one country or one region.