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Bollywood actress Dia Mirza is going to join the bandwagon of actor turned producer. She debuted with the movie ‘Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein’ in 2001 opposite Madhavan and became a star overnight, although the movie did not do well at the box office.

The actress confirmed about turning producer very soon. She said that the announcement may come out by next week as she would have locked her script by then.

Dia might be seen playing the role in her production venture opposite Zayed Khan. The actress is interested in making biopics. She said that the real life stories inspire her and the personalities that attract her are Bharat Natyam dancer Rukmani Devi, painter Amrita Shergill and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu.

One of her much waited films titled ‘Johnny Mastana’ has been waiting to be released for a year. The 28 year old actress is hoping the movie releases soon so that it can silence the people who say that it has been stalled.

The actress said that the viewers can see her best performance till date in ‘Johnny Mastana’. She also added that the only reason of the delay is due to the tussle of rights between Twentieth Century Fox and UTV.

Well, even though the actress could not offer any successful movie in last three years, audience can give her a chance to show her production skills. May be she turns out to be a lucky producer for her film!

Actress Dia Mirza is fed up of men and it’s all after she did the film Acid Factory. The film has six men and Dia in lead roles. Being caught amongst six handsome men, instead of feeling great, Dia actually is frustrated of men because of their boy-talk.

Dia said, “I used to scream sometimes… Boys can talk a lot, and can be super distracting. They were always discussing the matches, or then car racing, and I used to constantly tell them to shut up and ask them to concentrate on their dialogues.”

Later, she candidly added, “But I’ve worked with most of them before, and love them all!”

Well, till now Dia must have learned much from the match (cricket) talk and why not because lot of other Bollywood ladies (Shilpa Shetty, Preity Zinta) knows much about it and even talk about it.

We thought actress Dia Mirza would’ve loved the opportunity to be the sole woman among six handsome, male actors in Acid Factory. But it wasn’t so smooth and rosy for the girl who thought it to be a pretty frustrating experience sometimes, you know with all the boy-talk and all that.

“I used to scream sometimes… Boys can talk a lot, and can be super distracting. They were always discussing the matches, or then car racing, and I used to constantly tell them to shut up and ask them to concentrate on their dialogues,” said Dia, “But I’ve worked with most of them before, and love them all!”

Now Mirza better get used to ‘match talks’, especially since a lot of our Bollywood ladies — like Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty — can do some ‘ball talk’ too these days… we of course mean, cricket, fellas! After all it’s the marriage of B-wood to C-world (read: cricket world). So it may just help knowing the ABC of such things, right Dia?

The friendship between Diya Mirza and her filmmaker friend Sanjay Gupta is going through testing times. The reason being, the delay caused to her film Acid Factory which is being produced under Gupta’s production banner White Feather Films.

According to our source,Acid Factory has Diya Mirza as the solo female lead amongst five to six male leads and it is one of her most challenging roles. Her character in the film is said to have grey shades. She is confident that this film will bring her back in the reckoning after a long on going lull in her career. But much to her disappointment the film is taking quiet long in the making and already has couple of its schedules disrupted and the economic slowdown have only made matters worse for the production house.

Diya is getting restless waiting endlessly for the film to finally get ready and hit the silver screen. She is understandably miffed for her dates being wasted as the film’s schedules have kept getting postponed. adds the source.

The very lovely Dia Mirza dropped in for a very late night tete-a-tete at the ZOOM office, looking like a million bucks in a hot white dress.

Yet the gal looked ‘pained’? Why?Definitely not at some of the very ‘ouch’ questions we asked her; the reason was something else. Mainly her two ‘wisdom’ teeth that are growing and cutting deep into her pink gums, causing her much agony.

No dahlings, we haven’t turned dentists all of a sudden. The gal told us so herself. “You know” she grimaced, “My wisdom teeth are behaving very strangely. Instead of growing vertically, they’re growing horizontally.

And cutting into my gums. I’m in pain all the time. If this persists, I may have to remove them surgically,” said the pretty heroine of Alibaug and Acid Factory. Now look at the brighter side Dia.

If your ‘wisdom’ teeth are growing horizontally, think of how much of a ‘lateral’ thinker you have become? Though we sympathise, we cannot help laughing ‘toothily’ at that one. Right Tooth Fairy?

In Suparn Verma’s Acid Factory she plays a girl locked up in a factory with four men with apparently no way out. She’s being made to do the most impossible stunts. But Diya doesn’t mind. Bollywood Actress Diya Mirza is the only woman in the entire script. “What I enjoy is being one of the boys. I’m doing everything that the boys are being made to do. And that includes all the stunts.

After playing dainty utterly feminine roles I’m enjoying being put on a harness dangling from ropes, jumping from heights, kicking and punching. In spite of my dainty image I’ve always been a tomboy. ”

What Diya enjoys even more is being mean. “My character is bad through and through. No apologies. No justification. She just enjoys being bad.

I like bringing that dark side of me out on screen because there’s way I can tap into it in real life. I like the surprise element in my role in Acid Factory. I remember seeing a film with Julia Roberts where she was a schoolteacher by day and quite naughty in the night.”

Diya just finished shooting with the Big B in Shoojit Sircar’s Shoebite. “Though we were co-stars in Shootout At Lokhandwala we didn’t have any scenes together.

In Shoebite most of my vital scenes are with Mr Bachchan. And believe me it was like going to acting school. He taught me one thing I’ll never forget.

‘To be a good actor you’ve to be a good listener.’ I’m going to follow that mantra, ” says the quietly attentive Diya who admits she’s an introvert.

“It was hard for me to come out and play the aggressive bad girl in Acid Factory or be part of the goofy comedy in Kunal Vijaykar’s Fruit & Nut. I’m basically quiet and shy. I like to read and write.”

Diya admits there’s no man in her life. “Oh, the amount of men I’m linked with! Where’s the time? Sometimes when I see my my friends with their soul mates I do wish I had someone to cuddle. But then I quickly move on to something else.”