Saidah Jules is one of the several foreign imports trying to find a foothold in B-Town. The starlet who features in Kalpana Lajmi&rsquo;s upcoming woman-centric film, apparently had to change her real name to fit into Bollywood. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jul/Starlet-Saidah.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 763px; " /> The Russia-born German-bred Juliet Glazkova became Saidah Jules and has made Mumbai her home. &ldquo;I changed my name because I felt it was too anglicised for Bollywood. I liked the Arabic name Saidah and added Jules,&rdquo; she explains. &ldquo;Initially it was spirituality that drew me to India. But I always wanted to be an actress from childhood. It was a dream even though none of my family members were in any way connected to the entertainment world and expressed their reservations about it,&rdquo; she adds. Saidah was seen in films like Pyaar Impossible and Right Yaa Wrong in brief roles besides doing ad campaigns. Apart from acting, she&rsquo;s also honing her dancing skills with item numbers a necessary calling nowadays. As part of her preparations she has learnt Hindi as well and done a course at an acting school in Mumbai due to which she got her first break in Pyaar Impossible. &ldquo;But it was a small role, I am now looking forward to bigger stuff. Hopefully Kalpana&rsquo;s film for which I have already begun shooting for will put me back in the scheme of things.&rdquo; The actress also features in Girish Malik&rsquo;s film with Purab Kohli and Tannishtha Chatterjee as well as another project with Ranvir Shorey. u00a0

Starlet Saidah Jules points out why she had to change her name for B-Town

'My name was too anglicised'

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