Actress Amrita Rao is out to surprise her fans and admirers. The actress, who is best known for as a demure girl next door, is out to change her image with a vengeance. Fans and cinegoers will see the actress in her new avatar in Anil Kapoor's Shortkut.

The actress who has been seen in her 'simple Jane' avatar in film after film like Vivaah and Welcome To Sajjanpur, has decided to chuck her all covered look for Anil Kapoor's Shortkut, which also stars Akshay Khanna and Arshad Warsi. The actress is believed to have been in two minds about whether to take the plunge or not but Anil Kapoor is believed to have pushed her into going for it. Amrita decided to take his advice as Anil is known to be quite savvy and has been around for quite a while now. Trusting his instincts that the move would no backfire on her, Amrita decided to take the plunge. Luckily for the actress, she is naturally endowed with a slender frame and thus did not have to worry endlessly about how she would look in more contemperory clothes, which called for some skin show. One of the other perks of going glamorous was the fact that Amrita got a chance to be clothed by Manish Malhotra. The actress had earlier gone for a grunge look in Farah Khan's Main Hoon Na. She has otherwise never departed from her sweet, simple image which has been built up over the years, prompted mostly by her choice of films. But perhaps realising that she was limiting her choice of roles, the actress has decided to prove that she can handle glamour as well.