Mumbai, Sep 12 - Eighty years ago legendary British actor Lupino Lane created a (yet unbroken) record for a male actor playing 24 roles in 'Only Me' (1929). And now Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra is all excited about the possibility of her entering the record books for doing 12 roles in forthcoming 'What's Your Raashee'.

'I was aware about Sanjeev Kumar playing nine roles in 'Naya Din Nayi Raat' and Kamal Haasan being seen 10 times over in 'Dashavatharam'. However, even I got to know about Lupino Lane's achievement very recently. Hats off to him to have done that eight decades back and that too in a silent film,' Priyanka told IANS.

In Ashutosh Gowariker's 'What's Your Raashee', she plays 12 different roles and the film has already been referred to the Guinness Book of World Records.

While there have been quite a few double role performances by leading ladies in the past, there aren't many movies where a Bollywood actress has played even a triple role, let aside coming close to enacting a dozen-odd characters in a single outing.

'Yes, I have been told about this. I guess not just in India but even in world cinema no woman has ever played 12 different characters in the film. In fact, the producers of 'What's Your Raashee' have got in touch with the Guinness Book of World Records and we are awaiting their response,' said Priyanka.

If one goes down the memory lane, one can comfortably say that with 'What's Your Raashee?', Priyanka may well boast of doing the biggest ever film written for a woman protagonist in the history of Indian cinema.

'Please don't make it all sound so big and heavy.