These days, there's only one word to describe Amrita Rao -- H-O-T.

The petite actress looked shockingly voluptuous on November's issue of The Man -- Wedding Special.

Sooraj Barjatya, who directed the actress in the hit Vivah, says that she is the perfect 'bride material' and many men agree she is the quintessential girl-next-door they would want to take home to their mothers.

As if she knows that only too well, the actress is one of the judges of a reality show called Perfect Bride, on the lookout for, well, the perfect Indian bride.

The actress surprises us -- in her interview in The Man magazine -- with her contemporary take on relationships and marriage, which completely breaks the coy image we have of her.

"I don't see any harm in people getting physical in a relationship before marriage," Ms Rao says. "If there is romance, there is bound to be some level of physical intimacy between partners. As long as both partners are comfortable and they take precautions, it should be their decision to take the relationship to that level before marriage or not."