"I will endure fire but not injustice," she says stoutly in her
Facebook account. "I will endure thirst but not abuse. I am the daughter
of Nepal, who will never falter."

It is not the kind of message one would expect from a silver screen star and sex symbol.

However, it fits Nepali actor Rekha Thapa like a glove in her current avatar - the new Maoist gal on the block.

The
20-something sensual lass from eastern Nepal, a household name for her
skimpy outfits and power to generate controversies, is the new publicity
weapon of the former guerrillas, hobnobbing with their top leaders to
spruce up the formerly underground party's public image.

Rekha,
who shot in the limelight by doing her own stunts, picking up a fight
with Bollywood bad man Shakti Kapoor and ruffling the feathers of a
Hindu organisation with her backless blouse, is now on a new publicity
arc after having formally joined the Maoist party.

Soon after her
admission to the party in 2009, Rekha proved her value as a
crowd-puller when she sashayed to a Maoist blockade of the prime
minister's office last November and shook a leg with Maoist chief and
former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, to the bemusement of
the watching crowds, the media and Prachanda's wife Sita Dahal.

The
sultry November revolution was capped by a casting coup this August
when Rekha signed up to play the female lead in a new film by a director
considered close to the Maoists.

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