Hema Malini with Nino Sukhishvili (right) , general director of the dance institute Sukhishvili, and Iliya Sukhishvili, the artistic director and choreographer of the ballet company

Legendary actress and bharatnatyam dancer Hema Malini is full of energy when we talk to her on the phone from Delhi. It's this energy that has expanded her repertoire to include singing, she just released an ode to Lord Krishna, and now being a cultural ambassador of sorts, she brings the National Ballet of Georgia to India. The dance institute Sukhishvili, the institute from Georgia (which was a part of the erstwhile USSR), last came to India 50 years ago, brought down by the then-Russian hero, actor Raj Kapoor.