Genelia - SPEAKING OUT

GENELIA

CLEARS THE AIR

           Genelia is seeing red after a Tamil daily reported that she had gone for the controverdial IIFA in Colombo. The rumours of her visit to Colombo strted after her "good friend" Ritesh Deshmukh was seen at the festival in Colombo. Immediately, various Tamil groups and Kollywood association jumped the gun and wanted her films to be banned.

       A peeved Genelia said, "Yes, i was actually supposed to perform with Saif and Shah Rukh, and walk the ramp with Manish Malhotra at the IIFA. but I've opted out; I did not want to hurt Tamil sentiments. I'm now in Mumbai doing an ad shoot and will be in Chennai on Sunday (today) to shoot for my Tamil films," The actress also later tweeted, "Sitting at home checking all the news and all the tweets on IIFA. I won't make it this year, looking forward to it next year."

        Meanwhile, Genny is all excited about her current triip to Chennai which will involve shooting for Utthamaputhiran with Dhanush which is nearing completion and a photo shoot with Vijay for Jayam Raja's Velayudham.