Noted film director Kalpana Lajmi has said she finds it interesting to work with commercial actors whose ''potential is yet to be tapped.''

''Working together have excited them (actors) as well as myself and it is a challenging job to present glamorous actors in a different light,'' Lajmi a told mediapersons here even as her latest offering 'Chingari', starring Sushmita Sen in the lead, releases next month.

She said since Sushmita was a mainstream commercial actor, it was quite a challenging task to present her as a rural woman in sensitive role of a prostitute, 'Basanti' in the movie.

''Be it Dimple as a mourner in 'Rudali' or Raveena Tandon as a battered housewife in 'Daman', I select the actors keeping in mind the character,'' Kalpana said and added that she did not write scripts keeping a particular actor in mind.

''All these three actresses have been at their glamourous best, before we got together to make socially purposeful films,'' she said.

She said she did not agree that roles were ''deglamourised.'' ''In 'Chingari', I have allowed Sushmita to use makeup in rural style. Even in 'Daman', Raveena used a lot of makeup till she was widowed in the film,'' Kalpana said.

On 'Chingari', Kalpana said she needed a female star who was also a good actress.

'Chingari' is a love story, unsual and unrequited between a sex worker called 'Basanti', a priest called Bhuvan Panda played by Mithun Chakravarty and the postman, Chandan Mishra, played by Anuj Sawhney, Kalpana said.