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                           Antonia Bernath 
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           Bollywood, English rose blooms in Bollywood film


[Bollywood News]: A young English actress has become the toast of 
Bollywood after receiving rave reviews in India for her performance 
in a Hindi film.

Antonia Bernath, 23, abandoned classes at the Old Vic Theatre School 
in Bristol to take up an offer from Bollywood for a lead role in Kisna.

She plays the daughter of a deputy commissioner who has an affair with 
an Indian man from a modest background.

The cross-cultural romance is set in May 1947, just a few months before 
the end of the Raj. The film is directed by Subhash Ghai, who has had 
several Bollywood hits in a career spanning 25 years. The leading man 
is Vivek Oberoi, one of India's most sought-after young actors.

Reviewers had reservations about the film but raved about Bernath's 
performance.

"Antonia is the best of the lot," said one reviewer. "She is endearing 
as well as stunning with a vulnerable face and has great acting talent. 
She is a scene-stealer."

There will be a non-Hindi version of the film. "That has a kiss, but 
it's just a quick kiss," Bernath said yesterday. "Personally, I prefer 
the version without the kiss. It's more erotic."

She is flying to America later this week to play Elvis Presley's wife 
Priscilla in a television film. 

FROM: http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=98529

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                          UPDATE: May 31st, 2005

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Elvis: The Kisna Connection

Look at this picture carefully:

http://im.rediff.com/movies/2005/may/30poster.jpg

Does the couple playing Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla look familiar?

No?

Take a closer look.

Bearing a startling resemblance to the King of Rock 'n' Roll before he 
got fat and ugly is Bend It Like Beckham's Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, the 
football coach Parminder Nagra falls in love with. Rhys-Meyers also 
featured in Mira Nair's Vanity Fair.

Playing Priscilla is Antonia Bernath, our very own Subhash Ghai's 
discovery in Kisna!

The duo star in an American television miniseries, Elvis, directed 
by James Steven Sadwith, about the life of Elvis Presley. 
The miniseries ends nine years before the King's untimely death in 
1977. Rhys-Meyers has won good reviews for his portrayal of Presley.

FROM: http://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/may/30look.htm

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