PIX: Meet Vikram Bhatt's new heroine

Iranian beauty Mandana Karimi will make her debut in Vikram Bhatt’s forthcoming film Bhaag Johnny. The film will co-star Kunal Khemu and Zoa Morani.

Born to an Indian father and Iranian mother, Mandana grew up in Tehran, before landing up in India for a Bollywood career.

"I don’t want to be known just for my looks," Mandana says. "I'm ready to experiment with roles from everything cliché to bizarre. My aim is to enact varied characters with all kinds of shades."

Even though she has lived in Tehran all her life, Mandana can speak Hindi pretty well. "I’m working on perfecting my accent now," she says.

Mandana has walked the ramp for fashion designers like JJ Valaya, Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, Rohit Bal, Anna Singh and Satya Paul.

She has even done advertisements for Royal Stag alongwith Shah Rukh Khan, and a Sony Ericsson ad with Kareena Kapoor.