Who’ll be reprising the role played so convincingly by Vidya Balan? That’s the obvious question we hear you ask. The actress most likely would be Nikita Thukral. She has already been approached for the role and is said to be reading the script. Moreover, going by the statement she’s making to south dailies, it seems that the role is all but hers. “It is a dream role for any actress. I like Vidya Balan's character in the movie and happy to be part of the Kannada remake as well,” Nikita is quoted as saying in a report.

Nikita Thukral has the experience of working in south films for about a decade now. So she’s clearly not short of confidence and, seeing the broad range of roles in her filmography, not short of talent either. She’s proved her mettle at doing item numbers with the hit song ‘Kondana Kodi’ in the Tamil film Saroja in 2008. She also won an award for her performance in the film. But another question that needs to be asked is whether Nikita Thukral is hot enough to play a voluptuous sex siren in the Kannada remake of The Dirty Picture.