Genelia D’Souza started her Bollywood career with K Vijaya Bhaskar’s Tujhe Meri Kasam starring Ritesh Deshmukh and the lead pair have been romantically linked ever since. Neither acknowledges that there is anything more than “just friendship” between them. When asked about Ritesh, she sternly said, “I am not dating him. There is nothing between us.”

Genelia, who has been busy doing films down South, like Shankar’s Boys and Bhaskar’s Bommarillu opposite Siddharth of Rang De Basanti fame, is now shifting her focus back to the Bollywood scene. She was last seen in Indra Kumar’s Masti starring Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Rao and Lara Dutta.

“I have done many films down south, but I don’t regret it at all. I got good offers so I took them up and this year, I have quite a few Bollywood releases — Priyadarshan’s Mere Baap Pehle Aap with Akshaye Khanna, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav. I play a young, bubbly girl in the movie. Then there is Abbas Tyrewala’s Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na with Imran Khan, Aamir Khan’s nephew. I have also signed a film with Harman Baweja,  which is a remake of  my Telugu film Bommarillu.”