<p>   The actress, who has starred in various international projects besides regional and Hindi films, says she does not want to be part of a typical song-and-dance film.</p>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="Tannishtha Chatterjee" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/Tannishtha-Chatterjee-1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 1071px; " /><br />   <strong>Tannishtha Chatterjee</strong></p>  <p>   &quot;I don&#39;t aspire to become a typical Bollywood actress. I want to be part of interesting cinema that deals with various women-centric issues. I don&#39;t relate myself to the commercial films here. But, I must say that in the past few years the Hindi film industry scenario has changed. With Vidya Balan&#39;s &#39;Kahaani&#39; and &#39;The Dirty Picture&#39;, India has produced some best women-centric films in the mainstream,&quot; Tannishtha said.</p>  <p>   The actress will be seen playing the lead in filmmaker Mangesh Hadawale&#39;s &#39;Dekh Indian Circus&#39;, which is a metaphor for rural India&#39;s struggle to access the better economic conditions of city life. For the film, Tannishtha has put on weight and learnt the dialect of the state to play a village woman. The film also stars actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui opposite her and is slated for an October 7 release.</p>  <p>   &quot;It&#39;s a simple story of a poor family, showing how a woman struggles to meet the ends. She tries hard to take her kids to nearby village to watch a circus. The entire film is a journey. I have gained weight for my character and Mangesh had also asked me to learn the dialect of Rabri community from Rajasthan,&quot; she added. u00a0</p>  <p>   Being born with a non-film background, she started her career in films eight years back with alternative films like &#39;Swaraj&#39;, &#39;Road, Movie&#39;, &#39;Brick Lane&#39; and &#39;Shadows of Time&#39;.u00a0</p>  <p>   The NSD graduate says she did not do commercial films because she did not find the content interesting. &quot;I am a trained actress and my vision of looking at a script is different. In the near future, if somebody offers me a commercial film then it should be beyond song and dance. It should be character driven like we had in &#39;Vicky Donor&#39;. With such films, the thin line between the commercial and mainstream films have got blurred,&quot; she said.u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The actress is a trained Hindustani classical singer too. She would be seen lending her voice for Aditya Bhattacharya&#39;s &#39;Bombay&#39;s Most Wanted&#39;.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;I play a bar singer in the film, so I have sung three songs in it. All three are typical bar numbers. I had sung for &#39;Page 3&#39; and &#39;Road, Movie&#39; also. Almost in all my films, I have sung one or two tracks but I haven&#39;t thought of taking up singing as a serious profession,&quot; she said.</div>  

Her tryst with Bollywood started two years back and actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, known for playing off-beat roles, says she wants to build up her career on women-centric films

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