No, Manisha Koirala hasn’t gone into any self-imposed hibernation. The gorgeous lady is cautiously picking selected projects in Bollywood.

It has been quite some time since Manisha was seen in a role that left a mark in people’s memory. Her marginal act in Akbar Khan’s Taj Mahal was equally forgettable as the movie itself.

But Manisha is slowly and surely trudging forward, signing few films and trying to keep controversies at bay.

The latest buzz is that Manisha has agreed to be part of a movie whose story is set in the backdrop of the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat that killed thousands of people.

The movie, said to be titled ‘Marham’, will mark the directorial debut of Saurabh Sengupta. It will have Manisha playing a socialite. Kay Kay Menon plays a quake victim.

The movie’s director told a newspaper recently that ‘Marham’ is essentially a movie about human emotions. The relationship between the characters played by Manisha and Menon is a complex one. It could be friendship, love or merely one human’s sympathy towards another.