/> It's the season of actresses making a comeback. After Raveena Tandon who reappeared in Buddha...Hoga Tera Baap and Karisma Kapoor who will be seen in Dangerous Ishq, it is Anita Raj who will be seen in a key role in Samir Karnik's Char Din Ka Chandni this January.

Anita Raj plays a Maharani in the film. The pretty vivacious actress made a fair splash in the 1980s when she did a series of successful potboilers specially with Sanjay Dutt, amd Dharmendra. She also managed to hold her own in more refined films by K Balachander (Zarasi Zindagi), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (Achcha Bura) and Basu Chatterjee (Laakhon Ki Baat).

And then she vanished. Having met and married producer Arjun Hingorani's son Sunil Hingorani Anita was content looking after her home, husband and son. Anita says she had no craving for arclight unless the offer was worth her while.

But now director Samir Karnik persuaded to give movies another try.

Speaking briefly amidst her hectic schedule Anita Raj says, "Yes I will be seen again this January after a long gap. My movie Char Din Ki Chandni is releasing. Where had I disappeared? Nowhere! I was right here. Role bhi to honi chahiye. "

Unlike her immediate contemporary from the 1980s Rati Agnihotri who has been doing inconsequential roles lately Anita (whose father Jagdish Raj played a cop in scores of films) preferred to bide her time.

Says the still-lovely actress, "I did make a return to movies in 2007 in a film called Thodi Life Thoda Magic. That wasn't seen by too many people. So I preferred to wait for the right opportunity. "