/> Manisha Koirala who's currently holidaying in the US with her golfer-boyfriend won't be here on July 11 when her long-delayed lavish musical Mehbooba releases.

So far it was presumed she would miss only the Mehbooba release. But it seems this monsoon brings a melee of Manisha movies on the same Friday. Without her presence.

Apart from Mehbooba, two versions in Bengali and Hindi of Rituparno Ghosh's Khela both featuring Manisha in the lead are also going to be released on the same Friday, July 11.

Surprisingly Manisha has not dubbed for either version of Khela, not even in Hindi.

Explains Ritu, "She has been traveling extensively and we just couldn't wait any longer. Manisha is the most easygoing obedient disciplined and hassle-free actress I've worked with.

Believe me I've worked with the most temperamental Bengali actresses in the world. I had heard Manisha is difficult. Not true at all. She just surrendered to my vision.

Ajay Devgan used to tell me Manisha is like a man on the sets. She gets ready for a shot in three minutes. I've worked with actresses who have failed to get ready even after three hours of makeup."

Ritu is in fact planning another film with Manisha. "She's so lovely. And I know exactly what I want to do with her in my next film. In Khela she has a very interesting role as this neglected wife of a self-centred actor played by Prosenjeet."

Khela is Ritu's first film with a child at the centre of the story. "It's about a a film unit that wants a particular child for a role. When the parents refuse, the boy gets in touch with the film's hero and suggests they kidnap him because he wants to do the film. The hero Prosenjeet and the film's art director Raima Sen do just that."

Khela will be Ritu's first Hindi-Bengali bi-lingual. But he has another one Sunglass coming up very soon.

"That was like making two different films because the male lead in Hindi is Madhavan and in Bengali it's Tota Roy-Chowdhary."