Do you think only Bipasha or Mallika can race your heart? Think again!

This winter it's going to be Tabu.

Tabu has always been an actress who'll thrill you, warm your heart, drive you to tears but when you go out to watch her latest film 'Maqbool', get ready for some hot-hot stripping followed by some intimate bedroom sequences.

Is it all due to the two duds she had in the row?

"I am not the one who'll start stripping because some of my films didn't do well. Yes, I do have some steamy scenes with Irfaan in 'Maqbool' but these are what the script requires," she claims.

'Maqbool' is an Indianised adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Tabu plays Nimmi, a mistress of a gangster called Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor). Maqbool is his henchman and in love with Nimmi, who incites him to murder Abbaji.

Her newfound penchant for screen sex doesn't stop here. Gautam Ghosh, a Bengali film maker, has signed her for his new film which deals with the ordeal of a modern woman wanting to live life on her own terms.

"But Gautam's films doesn't call for too much exposure. Whatever it has is the requirement of the script," she adds quickly.

As far as we remember, doesn't everyone say the same thing when she goes for a steamy act? Please get some new excuses Tabu!