/> Bipasha Basu has done it. Her first- ever arthouse film. Entitled Pankh the serious study of gender confusion is about the life of a child actor who grows up thinking he's a girl because of the female moppets he played as a child.

The story recalls the recent case of child actor Ashish Channa who's apparently a girl passed off as a boy for the movies.

New director Shudipto Chattopadhyay has cast a newcomer Maraddona in the role of the androgynous boy.

But what makes Pankh so interesting is Bipasha. She plays a Bollywood actress whom the muddled protagonist adores.

Even more interestingly, Bipasha is apparently playing herself. A new trend pethaps? Because Bobby Deol plays Bobby Deol in Samir Karnik's Nanhe Jaisalmer.

"That's what the director Shudipto would like call Bipasha's character...Bipasha," informs producer Sanjay Gupta whose production house White Feather will be branching into another brand name with Pankh to produce serious offbeat films.

Continues Gupta, "Shudipto's film is almost 50 percent ready. And he wants Bipasha to be called Bipasha because she plays a sensuous actress whom our hero is completely besotted by."

However Bipasha isn't comfortable with the idea of her name being used in the film.

Says the straight-laced actress, "I really need to have a discussion with Shudipto on this. Yes, he's very keen that I be called Bipasha in Pankh.

But I'm not at all comfortable with my name being used for any character, even if I'm playing her. I'd rather stick to the character's name Nandini...Pankh is very special, and not just because it's my first so-called art film.

But the minute I heard the subject I was bowled over. It deals with a very serious problem within the film industry. Let's not trivialize it by people speculating whether the character I play is based on me. That's exactly what will happen if my name is Bipasha in Pankh.