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Indian sports’ new pin-up girl Sania Mirza is not really a movie buff, but enjoys the on-screen actions of Akshay Kumar and would like to see the sentimental story of a deaf and dumb girl in Amitabh Bachchan’s latest release Black

“I generally love to see action movies. But yes, I want to see Black,” Sania, on a whirlwind visit to the city, said in Kolkata on Sunday.

Answering a wide range of queries from media persons, Sania named Bollywood action-star Akshay Kumar as her “favourite actor", but said her gruelling tennis routine did not permit her to sit back and enjoy movies.

Sania said she also relished the mouth-watering ‘Rasogolla’ of Kolkata, but had to restrain herself to maintain her fitness.

“I have tasted the sweet delicacy, but please don’t tell my trainer. He will kill me,” she said in a lighter vein.

On whether she enjoyed partying, the teenager said she was not fond of dancing and therefore “even if I go to a night club, I shall only sit in a corner.”

Coming to the metropolis after one-and-a-half years, Sania said she loved the city and would come again later this year to play a WTA Open.

“Its great to know that I have a kind of fan following in Kolkata also, though I know very well that Sourav (Ganguly) is your most favourite star,” said Sania, who had lunch at Sourav’s, the multi-cuisine restaurant owned by the Indian cricket captain.

India’s teenage tennis sensation Sania Mirza yesterday took exception to the media making a mad scramble to cover her engagement at an orphanage here saying members of the fourth estate should know where to come and where not to. The 18-year-old Sania, who paid a half-hour visit to the Calcutta Muslim Orphanage, had a tough time in meeting the inmates with lensmen and electronic media personnel trying to capture every minute of her visit. Media persons had assembled in large numbers following an invitation from the organisers.

“I did not come to meet you. I came to meet the orphans,” Sania said in an unusual stern reaction when asked by a scribe how she felt about the present media craze around her.

“Well, I do feel good at all this attention from the media (since my recent successes). But then, media should know where to come and where not to,” she said. Clad in a colourful salwar kameez, the smiling 18-year-old went round the Calcutta Muslim Orphanage, shook hands with the 250 girls and gave them authographs.