Filmmaker and legend Shyam Benegal, and evergreen actress Waheeda Rahman during the Whistling Woods International Annual Convocation Ceremony in Mumbai, India on July 18, 2012.

Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal looks all set to join the bandwagon churning out films based on the lives of actresses and Bipasha Basu seems to be his definition of the trademark Bollywood heroine. Cashing in on the wave created by Madhur Bhandarkar's much-hyped Heroine and Milan Luthria's The Dirty Picture, which looks at the tragic life of eighties sex siren Silk Smitha, Benegal plans to launch a film that will take an unflinching look at the lives of actresses in the film industry.

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has finally given the nod to veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal.
The film to be shot next year would be an out-and-out female-oriented subject to be shot atone stretch.
Says Aishwarya, “I’ve been working so hard this year that I haven’t had a chance to look at scripts. But yes, the one that Shyam Benegal has given me is very, very special. We’ve been meaning to work with one another for years.”