If you do a sting operation on how desperate stars become, if offers dry up, then our heroines take the cake.

Shriya Saran after doing films with top heroes like Rajnikanth, Vijay, Vikram,Jayam Ravi and Dhanush has now reportedly signed a film opposite Malayalam superstar Mammootty written and directed by debutant Vysakh.

The buzz is that Shriya liked the script and they needed only 30 days call sheet from her. This film titled Pokkiri Raja is a mass masala action entertainer where Mammootty and Pritviraj play brothers.

When contacted, Shriya confirmed the news and said that she will start the shoot from January 2010. She also added that reports about her doing a film opposite Srikanth in Tamil is baseless and talks are on with Super Good films for a film with Jeeva in the lead.

Actor Shriya Saran looks forward to the India release of Cooking with Stella

After creating a stir at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada, Cooking with Stella is set for its India release early next year. Actor Shriya Saran, who plays a major role in this Canadian project, cannot hide her excitement. This is Saran’s second international project after The Other End of the Line where she starred opposite Jesse Metcalfe, the heartthrob gardener from Desperate Housewives.

Saran plays a nanny in Cooking with Stella — written by Deepa Mehta and directed by her brother Dilip Mehta — and, true to her part, she loves babysitting. Her character is called Tannu, a nanny to the two-year-old child of a Canadian diplomat and her husband, played by Lisa Ray and Don McKellar. The film, which is based in New Delhi, is a humorous take on how the foreign couple learns to deal with the concept of domestic help in this country.