'I'm not changing my name!'

<div class="section1"><div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><img src="/photo/522609.cms" alt="/photo/522609.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">A first look at Isha Sharvani, who will be debuting in Ghai’s movie, </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">Kisna</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Had Subhash Ghai even blinked during a perusal of photographs sent by well-known dancer Daksha Seth, her 19-year-old daughter Isha Sharvani might not have found her way to Bollywood.<br /><br />Ghai had been assessing the dancer''s work before finalizing the choreographer for his film Kisna.<br /><br />"Had it not been Subhash Ghai, I would have never got into movies," says the lissome beauty, who lives in a dance ashram built by her mother in Trivandrum. "I''m more comfortable in the village setting," she says. </div> <div align="right" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="right" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><img src="/photo/522610.cms" alt="/photo/522610.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">I chose Isha for her innocent face and disciplined mind, and she’s a dancer. And I won’t be changing her name since her performance is what counts. </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">Subhash Ghai</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />"In fact, I am probably the classic case of <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">gaon ki chhori</span> turned into <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">shaher ki ladki!</span> Suddenly I''m thrown into an alien world."<br /><br />Incidentally, she plays a village belle in <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Kisna</span>, opposite Vivek Oberoi! She didn''t even know Ghai''s identity till now. <br /><br />"I only recently saw <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Pardes</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Taal</span>," she confesses. <br /><br />Isha says she is very camera friendly but shy off-camera. "I didn''t have any teething problems on my first day, as my first shot was a dance scene," she says. <br /><br />Ghai, who is otherwise ''superstitious'' about the letter ''M'' being mandatory for the names of his heroines hasn''t pushed Isha. <br /><br />"He suggested the idea, but I told him that I''m not comfortable with a different name ," says Isha. "I don''t believe that a change in the letter will make a difference. It''s my performance that matters." <br /><br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">(</span><a href="mailto:afsana.ahmed@timesgroup.com">afsana.ahmed@timesgroup.com</a><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">)</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span></div> </div>