These days, Rituparna Sengupta (picture left) is at the right place at the right time. After cheering for KKR along with Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla at Eden Gardens, the Tollywood heroine flew to London to give away a prize at the Zee Cine Awards in end-April.

“I gave away the Best Actor in a Negative Role award to Arjun Rampal. He got it for Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om,” says Rituparna, who was accompanied on stage by Kelly Dorji.

The programme will be aired on Zee TV at 8pm on May 17.

“The ceremony was held in London on April 25 and the whole of Bollywood had come down, from Shah Rukh Khan to Karan Johar, Rekhaji to Raveena Tandon. I wore a black-and-gold sari on the occasion.... The next day I flew to New York for a show. It was hectic but I enjoyed it.”

Rituparna was also present at last year’s Zee Cine Awards held in Malaysia to give an award to Ganesh Acharya for choreographing Bidi jalaile in Omkara.

She is now camping in Mumbai to shoot for Anup Das’s Dil Ka Armaan, in which Divya Dutta is her co-star.

Once the Dil Ka Armaan shoot winds up, Rituparna will be back in Tollygunge to start Dulal Lahiri’s Aaynate, which will also mark the Tollywood debut of Rati Agnihotri.

“Dil Ka Armaan is a very different film; it’s on surrogate mothers. Aaynate has a very unique subject too. I will also work in a film by Partha Sarathi Joardar. I have asked him to make some changes in the script. We will start once he is through,” she adds.