India, Aug. 12 -- Kannada actress Rachita Ram makes her Kollywood debut with the big-ticket release, Coolie, starring Rajinikanth in the lead. Coolie is her first non-Kannada film after over a decade in movies, which, she says is because she was adamant to spend the first 10 years of her acting career on home ground, before venturing out. During the making of the film, when rumours spread that Rachita would be in the Lokesh Kanagaraj directorial, she'd chosen not to confirm or deny it, preferring to let the makers announce when the time was right.

That announcement came with the film's trailer, which has a split- second visual of the actress, who is fondly known as Kannada cinema's Dimple Queen. She joins her I Love You co-star Upendra i...