For Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya, actress Nandana Sen gained five kilos for the role since she had to look voluptuous.

In the film, Sen will be seen playing a young Maharashtrian girl with long hair, light eyes, waist chain and a nose ring. Her character is that of Sugandha, a devdaasi and muse to Raja Ravi Varma, a 19th century artist who was famous for his paintings based on mythology, and for his life-like portraits of the country's elite.

Strangely, from Seducing Maarya (2002), to Strangers (2007) and now Rang Rasiya, the 'enchantress-seductress' seems to be Sen's preferred role.

Sen has been offered films as varied as Spanish, American and French. In the next year or so, as an Islamic pacifist in The War Within, a tough city girl in The Forest and in a comic role in It's a Mismatch.