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AFTER Bride and Prejudice put an Indian spin on Jane Austen’s much-loved novel, Shakespeare could be next in line for the Bollywood treatment.

That’s one goal for actor Naomi White, a finalist in the 2008 Miss India Australia quest.

“So many of his plays’ themes are appropriate to Indian culture such as family values and obedience,” White said.

The Shakespearean-trained actor, 27, grew up in Springvale South with her Indian mother and Australian father before jetsetting to Sydney and London to study drama.

“You could say I’ve been living out of a suitcase,” she said.

But for the past week the globetrotter has been in Perth rehearsing for the Miss India Australia pageant, an area she admittedly never thought she’d enter.

“It does feel a bit strange to have entered a pageant but in terms of my acting it has really helped my confidence and presentation,” White said.

She said the competition had also helped her connect with the “Indian girl within”.

“I first visited India when I was 13 and despite having been there for a couple of days it had an incredible effect on me; I felt a real connection to the place.”

With the pageant behind her, White said she hoped to make a name for herself in Mumbai’s thriving film industry.

She said she eventually hoped to split her time between the two countries she called home.

“It seems I’ll be living out of a suitcase a little while longer.”