Bhavana Rao on a high

After her successful debut film Gaalipata (Kannada), Bhavana Rao was hardly seen but she returned to the silver screen recently with her maiden Tamil flick Kola Kolaya Mundhirika.�The actress was reportedly biding her time, waiting for a worthwhile film to come her way; it seems she has now found such a film and some exciting developments in her career.

Bhavana has now signed her second Kannada film, Vaare Wah by Vijayalakshmi Singh, starring Komal. “Yes, I did have a couple of other offers in the interim, but they never took off despite more than 50% of the portions being shot. But I prefer to not dwell on the past and would rather focus on what I’m doing now,” she said to a leading English daily.�

“It feels a lot more comfortable to be directed by women. Vijayalakshmi ma’am has three daughters and having been an artiste herself, she knows what we go through. I was wary of the ways of the industry. But now, I don’t look like I can be taken for a ride,” she added.