Tulip Joshi signs Pooja Bhatt's Dhoka

Actress Tulip Joshi has been roped in as one of the leads in Pooja Bhatt’s forthcoming film Dhoka. The film has been written by Mahesh Bhatt.

This will be Tulip’s first project with Bhatts, though she was approached by the Bhatts in the past as well but she couldn’t do those films due to date problems. Talking about Dhoka, Tulip says that she liked the script and therefore, decided to do the film. Tulip is a big fan of Pooja’s films and loves the way Pooja has portrayed women in her films.

Apart from Dhoka, Tulip is also doing a couple of other projects. She has signed films with Sanjay Gupta, Amol Shetge and a South film starring Mamoothy. Her upcoming releases this year include Arindam Mitra’s Shunya and Manish Gupta’s Hostel.

Tulip Joshi's film to premiere in the land of Tulips

After doing the highly acclaimed film Matrabhoomi, Tulip Joshi is back with the much awaited film Shoonya. The film is directed by Arindam Mitra (who is also the producer of Black Friday) who considers 'Shoonya' to be the modern-day interpretation of T.S Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral'

The film will be premiered at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam in Holland (Jan 24- Feb 4, 2007). The Rotterdam Festival is considered unique and a treasured space because it gives talented filmmakers a gamut of films making process, from advising on scripts, marketing of films, gaining contracts and finance provided by Hubert Bals Funds to deserving films.

The story of the film revolves around a cricket star and his tryst with fame and adulation. The director has cleverly made use of the money generating spectrum of sports in which conscience ends up being a pawn in the hands of outside forces and vested interest.

The film will see stunning performances by some of the best in the industry, right from Nasseruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Tulip Joshi, Seema Biswas , Satish Kaushik and Ninad Kamat. This does seems to be one power packed film to watch out for.

Tulip Joshi on a signing spree !!

The new year seems to be very promising for Tulip with back to back release of Shunya & Hostel, soon, her career has taken off in a big way.

Soon after news of her signing a multiple film deal with Sanjay Gupta's White Feather Films, she has also signed a film with Salman Khan's secretary Vikas Kapoor's production 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' directed by Sameer Karnik.

Besides the innumerable offers that have come her way, Tulip is being very selective.
She has just signed a film opposite a macho star to be directed by a promising director erstwhile in the RGV Camp. She will soon be off to Mauritius to shoot for the film in one schedule in the next 15 days.

Tulip seems quite pleased with the way her career has taken off after a brief sabbatical since her critically acclaimed Mathrubhoomi.

“Kimmaya is not a religion"

Whilst Hollywood celebrities like Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Madonna propagate alternative and exotic new religion like Scientology, Kaballah etc. Bollywood’s ravishing beauty Tulip Joshi swears by Kimmaya. But Tulip differs with her Hollywood counterparts by saying that Kimmaya is not a religion or a cult and has nothing to do with Reiki, Pranic healing, yoga etc.

Says Tulip, “Spirituality for me is Kimmaya. It is a way of life. It's not a cult or religion. It tells you to go beyond positive thinking towards intelligent thinking. It's about making intelligent choices. While it's considered that spiritualism and materialism do not go together, Kimmaya believes there's no harm in acquisitions.

Tulip has been championing Kimmaya ever since she recovered from a near fatal back injury. Her trips to the doctor had no results, but since she has been practicing Kimmaya, she is physically as fit as her sporting days as well as gone through 'spiritual cleansing' through Kimmaya.