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STRAIGHT TALK

I specifically opted
for the role in Baby
because I saw it as a
great opportunity to
break away from the
image of the small-
town, feisty, Punjabi
girl.

You seem to be gearing up for a long
innings in Bollywood with two films in
your kitty. Tell us about your forthcoming
films. The fact that I could
RunningShaadi.com will be my second film, connect very well
after the near perfect debut I made with
Chashme Baddoor. It is the ideal follow-up to the character in
film I needed after my first film. I also have RunningShaadi.com
another film, Baby with Akshay Kumar. I am
quite happy with the way my career is going. also helped me a lot.
I am aware of the fact that my struggle has
just begun. The first film happens with zero for stardom nor did I have a production was very flexible. I was more like a comrade
expectations. In the days ahead, I will have
to prove myself. house to support me. No sugar daddy and on the sets. I took the liberty of asking for
no protective mummy either. I did it on my changes in scenes and constantly questioning
own. I guess I got lucky. him. The fact that I could connect very well
Now that your career in Hindi films has to the character in RunningShaadi.com also
taken off, have you decided to call it helped me a lot. On the other hand, David-
quits as far as your career in the south is Coming to your second Hindi film, Sir had already edited Chashme Baddoor in
concerned? apparently you will be once again seen his mind before we could start shooting. He
in the role of a bubbly effervescent
I am yet to take a call on that. Currently I’m young girl in RunningShaadi.com. Aren’t was very clear about what he wanted. Of
shooting for a Tamil film, an old commitment you worried that you may end up being course he did allow us to improvise on our
that I had to fulfill. It is the third part of typecast in the same kind of roles? performances. But with his experience I had
a Tamil franchise film called Muni. There Wait till you see me in my third film Baby, to think a million times before making a
were other heroines in the earlier two parts in which I will be seen in a completely suggestion.
though. The Tamil film industry is a male-
driven industry and audiences need to different role. As for RunningShaadi.com, I Coming to your third film Baby, do you
constantly add to the glamour quotient of had a ball shooting with the two Amits, my consider yourself privileged to have
their movie viewing experience. It’s a sad co-star Amit Sadh and director Amit Roy, bagged a film opposite Akshay Kumar
in the film. We’d shoot for 12-13 hours at
situation. despite being a newcomer in Bollywood?
a stretch, but I never felt the weight of the
long hours. That’s the spirit I like to shoot in. I I am not the first actress from the south
Do you agree that you didn’t have to thoroughly enjoyed the experience. who will be working with Akshay. He has
struggle much to get a foothold in Hindi been doing films with other south actresses
cinema? How different was the experience who have made a foray in Bollywood like
Frankly, I never had to struggle much in my working with debutante director Amit Kajal Aggarwal and Tamannah Bhatia.
life. I got my big break in Hindi films with Roy in RunningShaadi.com from your first Also, doing an Akshay Kumar film does not
Chashme Baddoor despite the fact that I director David Dhawan? mean that I am going to preen as an Akshay
wasn’t a great actor. I didn’t really qualify Kumar heroine. My criteria for accepting
This is Amit Roy’s directorial debut and he

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