Tatari's directorial debut, Summer of 2007, dealt with the subject of farmer suicides in the hinterland. He hopes to make a point about the medical world with his new film, starring Paoli.
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Shooting for Vikram Bhatt's yet-to-be-titled courtroom drama started in September and the film is scheduled to release in early 2013. Like in Hate Story, Paoli is being billed as the star attraction of the film while the rest of the cast will not have any major names.
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Although Paoli has done a few commendable roles in several offbeat Bengali films since then - such as the National Award- winning Moner Manush and Elaar Chaar Adhyay - she is still perceived as a sex symbol in Bollywood.
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In fact, Vikram Bhatt is said to have been impressed by her sensuous image in Chhatrak while casting Paoli in her bold role in Hate Story, a film that saw her play a crime reporter who resorts to prostitution in order to survive after being destroyed by a powerful man and to also extract revenge.
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Paoli's image as a sex bomb came to the fore when she shot to fame with her Bengali film, Chhatrak. The art film, which won accolades in various festivals all over the world and was screened at Cannes 2011, featured Paoli in the nude, doing sex scenes.
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The wife-swapping film, however, has been shelved for now, and Bhatt is going ahead with a courtroom drama based on the slackness and corruption in the medical profession. The new film, directed by Suhail Tatari, will have Paoli playing a lawyer, a role she insists will not require her to expose.
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The Vikram Bhatt-produced erotic thriller Hate Story made news primarily because of Paoli's bare-back posters and steamy scenes in the film. Soon after that, Bhatt announced he was planning a thriller with the subject of wife-swapping in its background, starring Paoli.
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Unlike Sunny Leone, who fully used her status as a porn star to make headway into Bollywood with Jism 2, Paoli seems to prefer keeping this aspect of her career a secret. Net surfers, though, are loving every bit of it.
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You are flooded with sex clips featuring the actress if you key in Paoli's name on sundry porn websites. If the number of hits her steamy videos have been garnering is any indication, her avatar as an adult star is far more popular than her role in her debut Bollywood film, Hate Story, which released earlier this year.
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Paoli Dam has declared she won't strip for the success of her next film. But the sex siren label, it seems, will not leave the Bengali bombshell in a hurry.
