Regina's turns Tollywood's serial kisser with liplocks

Barring Ravi Teja actress Regina is yet to star alongside A-listers - this despite the Chennai beauty proving herself as a performer. Nevertheless she has no complains and is very happy with the way her career is progressing.

“I don’t think an actor, at the end of the day, has control over the films that he/ she is offered. I have got some really good offers alongside top stars in the past, but it’s that something’s didn’t work out. I definitely want to work with them, but that doesn’t mean that I want to lose out on good directors; like Harish Shankar, who I’m joining forces, up next,” she explains.

She is presently awaiting the release of her much-delayed flick ‘Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham’ (PNLJ) alongside Sai Dharam Tej, nephew of Chiranjeevi. She says her character is quite different from the ones that she played till now. “Sri, an art student is a proper Telugu heroine, but is grim most of the time and remains to herself.

When the hero starts falling for her, it’s not like she hates him, but doesn’t want him, for what she has gone through in her life,” she shares, adding, “Generally our heroines reciprocate love after a certain point, but over here she is adamant that she doesn’t want to be in love.”

The actress, who has locked lips with her co-stars in the past, dismisses any such sequence in the film. “People feel that there’s such a scene in ‘PNLJ’ because of the trailers, but there’s no such sequence,” she sets the record straight.

“I don’t know why there’s such a fuss over a kiss scene. When you present a couple in love, a kiss is a mere way of expressing it and I don’t feel anything wrong with it. I’m happy that I’m setting a trend when it comes to lip-locks (smiles).”

The actress has bid her girl next door image goodbye with ‘Ra Ra Krishnayya’. Ask her if it was deliberate or something that the script demanded, she maintains, “Though I was labeled as a performer, people had their own apprehensions whether I can pull of a glamorous role.

They said that if you want to stay in industry you have to show your hip. I was like, ‘Oh I don’t know this.’ When ‘Ra Ra Krishnayya’ came my way, the director explained me about a sensuous number. It was more of a challenge to me and I took it up.”

A sucker for romance, the chirpy actress is yet to find her Mr Right. “Since I’m dreamy I’m yet to find love I guess,” she reasons with a big smile. “I’ve read a lot of romantic novels and the characters (male) are generally perfect. There are so many expectations that no one has met them hitherto.”