WHEN people meet me for the first time, they say that I have gorgeous hair, dancing eyes and a sincere face,” says Vidya Malwade, the hot new Bhatt find from the flop Inteha. “I know two of the three are correct, since I’ve just cut my cascading locks.” Malwade was discovered by ad whiz Prahlad Kakar’s agency while the former air hostess was screen-testing to be a model. “I don’t know what they saw in her, but my staff went gaga over her,” says her mentor and friend. “There’s something very vulnerable about her. That’s where her sex appeal lies—in her child-woman demeanour. She’s innocent with the potential of being something really wild.”She did the famous Maska Chaska ad with him, and then went on to do Thums Up with Akshay Kumar and Wheel with Govinda. She’s currently working on two more films from the Bhatt stable—one’s a remake of Sliding Doors called Take Two, and the other’s an untitled one. Malwade says she isn’t dating anyone right now. “I like Brad Pitt, but Indian heroes come with too much baggage.” MIRCHI METER Aaja Piya
