One of Dubai’s premier TV personalities Andria D’Souza is Bollywood bound

Her ancestral roots may be found in a same Indian city as Aishwarya Rai, though distinct her Mangalorean behaving contemporary Andria D’Souza, or Ria as she is some-more familiarly known, is Dubai by and through. Born and brought adult in a UAE, a pleasing Zee TV presenter, indication and now film star even goes as distant as to call herself a ‘Dubian,’ (Dubai-Indian) such is her affinity for a land of her birth.

The current host of Zee TV’s Zee Connect, shown each Saturday during 8pm, Ria is now celebrating both a start of her show’s second array and a new recover of her entrance movie, Malayalam regretful thriller Casanovvastaring ‘The Don’ of a south Indian film attention Mohanlal.

Here we pronounce to Ria to find out some-more about what we can design from Connect and what a destiny has in store.

As a show’s initial partial went out on Saturday, what has Zee Connect got to offer Dubai?

The programme is my baby as it was where we finished my initial step into television. The initial deteriorate went off splendidly and we have a same hopes for this one.

The uncover is a lifestyle programme that covers a latest goings on in a UAE. We give character and yoga tips and we have one shred where we speak about a Zee family. This involves assembly a family and deliberating values, so people in today’s era find out what being partial of a family means.

So, what does family meant to you?

Family means a universe to me. My silent and father are a many special people on earth.

How did we take your initial stairs into a media career?

I was operative in a tiny organisation only underneath 4 years ago. we had a crony who was training photography and asked me to indication for his project. When we got a cinema behind we put them on Facebook and got a good response from my friends. They constantly pushed me to go for modelling jobs, though we didn’t consider it was for me. So one of my friends took a cinema from my Facebook page and sent them in to a modelling foe for LG electronics. It was to find a face for their new TV ad campaign.

One day we was out with my auntie grocery selling and got a call from LG observant I’d been shortlisted from 200 entrants. we suspicion it was a antic during first. When we found out it was legitimate, we went along, though was so nervous. Every one of a girls was so beautiful. we didn’t consider we was going to make it, though we had to be certain and gave it a shot. Eventually we finished it to a finals. Each turn we had to uncover utterance and comprehension as good as style. Although we didn’t win a finals we was not disheartened. It valid we could do it and we also perceived a Miss Confidence award.

From there we assimilated a internal modelling agencies. The executive on one of my initial imitation ad shoots pronounced to me I’d be good on television. Again, we hadn’t suspicion about that, though sealed adult for a promote side, did a integrate of adverts and never looked back. we got into a brief film and from there to Zee TV.

And now we can explain a partial in a film with Mohanlal, have we been study acting?

No, behaving and dancing come naturally. When we was 3 years aged my relatives saw me examination radio and dancing a same routines as they were doing on a show. we still do that! I’m a weird when we dance. Put some song on and I’ll dance anywhere, we adore it.

So you’re an enterprising person?

One has to be! It’s how we live my life. I’m always a hyperactive person. My inlet is really bubbly, really chirpy and wherever we go we like to siphon adult a energy. Everyone asks if we like Red Bull, though I’ve never tasted a sip. we only adore flitting appetite on.

How do we feel Casanovva went?

The reviews were not great, though we was appreciated in that film and it has led to me signing another design with a same director. It is again a Malayalam film and will come out in December.

So it is a start of even larger things to come?

The ultimate idea is to do some-more movies. we adore a ones we have finished so distant and we am meditative of removing into Bollywood really soon. we need to benefit a small some-more knowledge first, so we wish to go to a Tamil attention after my subsequent film to ready some-more and afterwards see where that takes me.

I need to do something of quality. we don’t only wish to do an object series and disappear.

You don’t like object numbers?

It’s not that we don’t like object numbers. we wouldn’t mind doing them, though if we start off that way, we are stranded with that tag and can’t pierce on. we don’t wish to ever take a step that means we can’t grow as an actor. we wish to do good work with actors we can learn from.

So, a million-dollar doubt therefore has to be, who would be a ideal heading male in your initial Bollywood outing?

I would adore to work with Salman Khan. we like a guy. we have interviewed him twice and, as a person, he is perfect. He is really common and, he’s cute!

david@khaleejtimes.com