Giselle Monteiro wallpaper #6

Giselle's friends used to tell her that she looked Indian and this is the reason she looked towards India & entered Bollywood after a few successful attempts in modelling. Giselle Monteiro looked a gracious & simple Punjabi Kudi in her debut movie Love Aaj Kal as is being seen in the above wallpaper.

Giselle Monteiro wallpaper #5

Giselle Monteiro is seen dancing in a song from the movie Love Aaj Kal in the 1024x768 sized wallpaper above. Giselle had to be trained rigorously to dance in the song as she didn't either know how to speak Hindi or how to dance in an Indian way. But no doubts, Giselle was successful in exhibiting Indian looks with the latkas, jhatkas & matkas of the Indian girls. Giselle in a Punjabi Pataka Kudi looks in the above wallpaper in a pink salwar kurta.

Giselle Monteiro wallpaper #4

Find a 1024x768 wallpaper of Giselle Monteiro above in which she is seen with Saif Ali Khan in the movie Love Aaj Kal. Saif is looking cool in red turban while Giselle Monteiro looks completely Indian in the floral salwar-kurta.

Giselle Monteiro wallpaper #3

Find one more wallpaper sized 1024x768 of Giselle Monteiro above. The girl gives completely Indian looks in the movie as her friends used to tell her, "Giselle you look completely Indian." and this is the reason she marched to India, did some modelling in fashion shows and now is in Bollywood.

Giselle Monteiro wallpaper #2

You can download the 1024 x 768 wallpaper of Giselle Monteiro by clicking on it from above. Giselle has really dhoomed the Bollywood and is all set to appear in upcoming movies.

The Giselle Monteiro mania

The mystery of the Punjabi girl in Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal, who gets royally wooed & won by the sardar Saif Ali Khan, has been solved – she is a Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro who couldn't speak Hindi or dance to save her life.

"She is actually a Brazilian girl named Giselle Monteiro. Why a Brazilian girl to play an old-fashioned Punjabi girl? Well, I was auditioning girls from all over the country to play the Punjabi girl opposite the Sikh Saif. I couldn't find the right girl to play the 1965 ki gali mein rehne wali ladki, purane zamane ki," Ali said.

Giselle had walked into Ali's office to play another part. "Giselle came to me through dress designer Anaita Shroff. She was to play Jo, Saif's Caucasian girlfriend in the second half. She wasn't right for Jo. But my wife, who was there, suggested Giselle for Harleen. I turned and looked at Giselle and realised she is Brazil's Harleen. She didn't know how to speak Hindi. But she had only two lines to speak, which we dubbed," said the director who has got mixed reviews for the film.

"She has been travelling all alone from all over the world from the age of 17. She's 19 now. Saif kept grumbling he'd look too old with Giselle. But he pulled it off completely," he added.

Giselle understood the old-world values of her small town character. "The small-town mentality in every part of the world is similar," said Ali.

But when the sequence showing her dancing at her engagement was shot, she drove the entire unit up the wall because she couldn't get the steps right.

"We wanted to put her through the paces with Sarojji but it never happened. Sarojji didn't have the time. For a foreigner to get the Indian 'adaa' right is very tough. We take for granted those nakhra-jhatka-matka, which we've seen our sisters perform at weddings. Indian girls have those 'adaas' without being trained. But for a foreigner it is tough," said Ali.

Throughout the making of Love Aaj Kal, Giselle was referred to by her screen name Harleen. Even when she became visible in the trailers, she remained inaccessible to the public.

Bollywood is showing a lot of interest in Giselle and you might soon see her in another movie.

More Brazil comes to India after Giselle Monteiro

After Bollywood imported Giselle Monteiro from Brazil for Harleen's role in Love Aaj Kal, the Indian modelling industry also seems to be fascinated by the models of Brazil as more models are going to walk on the ramp from Brazil. Take a look:

• The hunky Brazilian, Anderson S, is a towering 6'1" tall and is sure to have the ladies in attendance swooning!
• Lidia Souza is 5' 7.5" tall and exudes a very waif-like, innocent appeal.