Bollywood actress Amrita Rao will be acting as a journalist her coming film Singh Saab The Great. In fact, Rao will be joining the bandwagon of various other actresses who have acted as journalists. Take for example Preity Zinta in Lakshay, Rani Mukherjee in No one Killed Jessica, Aditi Rao Hydari in Rockstar and Nargis Fakri in Madras Cafe.

Amrita Rao plays the role of a lady news reporter of a Hindi TV channel, who also narrates the story of the movie. `This role made me realize the importance and power of the media and how difficult is the life of female reporter,'' she says

`I was asked by the director to watch Hindi News Channels to get into the character. I attain a UP accent in my dialogues.` Rao maintains.


She has been in the industry for the last ten years but does one film a year on the average. `I am careful choosing movies. Couple of my movies did not get released and because them I missed Shyam Benegal's Well done Abba and Jehangir Surti's Aa Dekhe Zara. This Year I am too lucky. I have three releases Jolly LLB, Satyagraha and now Singh Saab The Great.`

Rao shares that she wants to act with Ranbir Kapoor as a heroine in the 50's black and white setting.