00:00And I had this silly friend of mine on the set, you know, and as it is I was finding it so difficult, so tough to perform because you feel uncomfortable, you know.
00:09Most embarrassing moment is always when I am paid a compliment.
00:13Thoroughly enjoyed working with Mr. Bachchan, with Chintu, Rishi Kapoor, with Mithun, with Sanju.
00:18And I shared a good rapport with all of them.
00:21Favorite person?
00:28Favorite person. Favorite people?
00:33Two share the favorite persons. My husband and my son.
00:37Even if it sounds cliched but my husband and my son, they are both tying for the first place.
00:44I don't know what the reason, maybe they are part of me.
00:49My son is born from me. My husband is part of me.
00:53And they have been very, they have rounded up my personality, my character completely.
01:00So, I suppose that's why both of them are.
01:05Any favorite quirk?
01:08Favorite quirk. You really want to know a lot about me.
01:14Yes, me being extremely meticulous.
01:18And that sometimes works against me because I am so particular about things, about timings.
01:27So, maybe I could relax a bit on it.
01:32Most embarrassing moment?
01:35Most embarrassing moment is always when I am paid a compliment.
01:41I just do not know how to handle it.
01:44Like, I look so embarrassed, you know.
01:47And they say, but we are only paying you a compliment.
01:49I say, I know but I don't know how to handle it.
01:52So, that's always been my embarrassing moments.
01:56Most scared of?
01:58Snakes. Definitely, 100%. Petrified.
02:02Like, I mean, I have been to snake farms because as my son was growing up, you know,
02:06you take them to crocodile farms and snake farms.
02:08But like, I am waiting to just flee.
02:11I break out into cold sweat.
02:13I am that petrified.
02:17Most difficult scene to do?
02:23From this film of mine, Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye,
02:26there was this scene with Mithun.
02:28And it was a very lovey-dovey and, you know,
02:32we have to be very, very happening, cool and this and that.
02:38And I had this silly friend of mine on the set, you know.
02:41And as it is, I was finding it so difficult, so tough to perform
02:45because you feel uncomfortable, you know.
02:48And she started giggling.
02:50So, Mr. LV Prasad, he was the producer of the film, he said,
02:53can we ask her to please leave?
02:56Because she is, you know, delaying the shot.
02:58But that has been one of the most difficult shots for me.
03:02I remember it so clearly.
03:04It was in Madras at the Fisherman's Cove, you know.
03:06And I remember it so clearly.
03:08And every time we think about it, I said, my God,
03:10such fools we were, you know.
03:12I mean, it's no big deal, you know.
03:14But I think at that time, at that age, you, you know,
03:17are a bit uncomfortable to do certain things.
03:23Favourite co-stars?
03:24My favourite co-stars, co-stars, we'll make them plural,
03:30at that point was,
03:32I mean, there have been so many.
03:35Like, I thoroughly enjoyed working with Mr. Bachchan,
03:38with Chintu, Rishi Kapoor, with Mithun, with Sanju.
03:41It's so many, you know.
03:43So, it's very difficult.
03:45And I shared a good rapport with all of them.
03:48So, it's very difficult to pinpoint a, or even two,
03:51good or favourite co-stars.
03:53And I'm not being diplomatic.
03:55I mean it.
03:57But we had to answer Mithun.
03:59Okay.
04:00Okay.
04:01He's also been one of my favourites.
04:05Okay, yeah, see.
04:06I'm telling you, it's very difficult because…
04:10Yeah, but it's so…
04:11But I did so many with all of these,
04:13with Sanju, with Mithun, you know.
04:14So, the thing is that it, you can't really segregate and say,
04:18this has, he has been my favourite co-star.
04:20And I don't think either of us are planning,
04:22you know, being diplomatic about it.
04:24It's just that you share good vibes with all,
04:27you work comfortably with all,
04:28and you have specials,
04:29you share certain good moments with each one.
04:33Favourite scene?
04:35Favourite scene?
04:38Favourite scene?
04:39You've stumped me.
04:42I don't know.
04:44I don't know. Favourite scene?
04:45That's not fair.
04:46You should have asked me this earlier.
04:49Yeah, I wanted to be spontaneous.
04:51Favourite scene?
04:52Definitely from Ek Doojhe Ke Le.
04:55The favourite scene was definitely
04:57from my first Hindi film, Ek Doojhe Ke Le.
05:02You know, the scene where
05:05I'm, I have the photograph in my hand
05:08and I'm defying my parents.
05:10And I light the photograph
05:12and I, you know, crumble the photograph,
05:15the ashes into the cup of tea.
05:17And I stir it and I drink it
05:19and I give that one look to my parents.
05:22Like, you know, like,
05:23y'all may stop me from seeing him,
05:25from being with him,
05:26but he's there in my system
05:27and I, you know, swallow the cup of tea
05:30and I lick it, you know.
05:32So maybe it's my basic nature,
05:34why I relate to the scene,
05:35why it is my favourite scene
05:37is probably because I relate to it.
05:39Because I basically am a kind of a person that
05:43I don't cow down.
05:45I'm, I probably,
05:48I have to believe in something.
05:51And if I don't believe in something,
05:53nothing on the face of this earth can make me do it.
05:56Film and movie?
05:57Of course, Ek Doojhe Ke Le.
05:59There's no doubt about it.
06:02I'll tell you why.
06:03It's not that I'm differentiating with my other films,
06:05but being my first Hindi film,
06:08the amount of satisfaction it gave me
06:11because I was young, new.
06:13So the success, the adulation, the fame,
06:16the progress that I had with the film
06:18and the recognition
06:21was amazing because still today,
06:23people walk up to me and
06:25it's, I mean, it's 20 years since Ek Doojhe Ke Le was released.
06:2920 years is a long time.
06:31And still people walk up to me and they, you know,
06:33talk about the film, certain scenes.
06:36In fact, one of the favourite scenes of the audiences
06:39also have been the scene that has been one of my favourite scenes, you know.
06:43Because it leaves an impact in your mind.
06:46And probably people were very impressionable.
06:48Like, the people who walk up to me are always people of
06:51probably my age who, at that point,
06:53were going through similar crisis in their lives.
06:56So they related to it.
06:58So they relate to me because of the film.
07:01You know?
07:02Favourite song?
07:04Hum Bane, Tum Bane Ek Doojhe Ke Le.
07:09Everything revolves around Ek Doojhe Ke Le.
07:11Because the music was brilliant,
07:13the movie was brilliant.
07:15Success, naturally, with it.
07:17You know?
07:18Recognition.
07:19Everything is, it's all interconnected with, you know.
07:22The most amazing dance you danced?
07:27In what way amazing?
07:28In the movie?
07:29In what way amazing?
07:30Very special, very, very difficult.
07:31Oh, with, in Tawaif?
07:34I didn't know how to dance like a Mujre Wali.
07:36And Mr. Gopi Krishan, you know,
07:39he was choreographing that particular song.
07:42And he had a particular style about him, you know.
07:45And I didn't know how to handle this, you know.
07:47Because he had this certain adaas and this and that.
07:51But we did it, you know.
07:54And probably I was in awe of, you know,
07:57him being such a senior, you know, performer himself.
08:04Your biggest asset as a person and as an actress?
08:08My biggest asset as a person will come foremost.
08:13Because I believe in the person you are
08:15and then whatever your profession,
08:18okay, so we are from the performing arts,
08:21so we are actresses.
08:23My biggest asset as a person is my sincerity.
08:28Because I truly believe in everything I say,
08:32I truly mean it and I truly believe in it.
08:35I don't, I can never, never say never,
08:39but I don't normally say things that I don't believe in.
08:42So I think it's my sincerity.
08:46Sorry?
08:47Actress?
08:48Actress.
08:50My dedication.
08:51Again, it stems from sincere, sincerity.
08:54My dedication, my hundred percent, my punctuality.
08:59It's all basically, it's all,
09:01they all revolve around the same thing.
09:03Like being a sincere person.
09:04If you're a sincere person,
09:05you basically have these qualities in you.
09:08So I think it remains the same,
09:10but I put a human being more than an actress.
09:14Biggest, you know, your pros and cons,
09:17biggest liability as a person and as an actress?
09:20Liability?
09:22Nothing's a liability.
09:24You are in your whole, in your complete conscious state.
09:29So whatever decision you make,
09:31you're completely aware of it,
09:32so nothing,
09:33I don't think anybody would be able to,
09:35should answer this question
09:36because nothing's a liability.
09:37You do it hundred percent,
09:38you do it for doing it.
09:41Unforgettable moment?
09:43Premiere of Ek Dooji Ke Liye.
09:45We had gone to Calcutta
09:48and I don't think I'd ever been for a premiere,
09:51not even in, like I had worked in movies
09:54before my first Hindi movie,
09:56I'd worked in the South,
09:57in Tamil and Telugu movies,
09:59but we never went for premieres and you know,
10:01so when Ek Dooji Ke Liye was releasing,
10:04we had to go to Calcutta
10:06and suddenly, you know,
10:08like even though one is used to it,
10:10by then all the, you know,
10:12fans and the autograph signing,
10:14but a premiere is a premiere,
10:16you know, so you're dressing up and,
10:18you know, young,
10:20so you look at it totally from a different perspective.
10:25Favourite hobby?
10:27My favourite hobbies,
10:30my favourite hobbies are,
10:33I'm basically a very creative person,
10:35so I immediately lean on to things that are creative,
10:40probably that's why I've come back to the industry
10:43because it also is a creative industry,
10:46candle making, my stained glass,
10:48my rock sculpting,
10:50my painting,
10:52all the creative aspects of.
10:55Favourite outdoor location?
10:57Used to be Srinagar.
10:59No longer.
11:01Any incident you remember?
11:03So many instances,
11:05it's very hard to pinpoint,
11:07but I used to love going to Srinagar,
11:09I used to love it,
11:11especially as you go higher from Gulmarg to Sonmarg,
11:13and you know,
11:15it's so virgin, you know,
11:17unfortunately.
11:20Favourite vacation spot?
11:24There's a tie,
11:26London and Switzerland.
11:29Because I love good weather,
11:31I can't handle the heat,
11:34so I normally like to go to places where it's cold,
11:37and you know, wear all those warm things,
11:40and you know, go into the, you know,
11:42higher areas where you feel so clean,
11:45and so fresh,
11:46and your lungs breathe better,
11:48you feel better,
11:49you feel more hungry,
11:50and I love food,
11:51I'm a very food person,
11:52full food oriented person,
11:54and I think the calm.
11:58You can just gaze,
12:00especially in Switzerland,
12:02if you go higher into the mountains,
12:04you just gaze into the, you know,
12:06lovely mountains,
12:09I can just sit there and read,
12:11I read a lot.
12:13Favourite season?
12:15Winter, undoubtedly,
12:17because I can't bear the heat,
12:19I'm like, it's summer,
12:22like I'm the only one going through the summer, you know,
12:25winter, definitely.
12:26Last question,
12:27most embarrassing romantic scene?
12:30I just told you, no?
12:32Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye,
12:34was very embarrassing,
12:36and when I get embarrassed, I start giggling,
12:39and fortunately, I was doing it with Mithun,
12:41who, you know, I had done a lot of films,
12:43and I was very, very comfortable,
12:45and I used to enjoy working with him,
12:47it was very embarrassing,
12:48but fortunately, I'm lucky that I had him as a co-star,
12:51so, you know, I mean, we could tie through that scene,
12:54but it was very embarrassing,
12:55because I would keep giggling,
12:56every time he would come close to me,
12:58I would start giggling,
12:59because I didn't know how to handle it,
13:00and he would scream at me,
13:01he said, behave yourself,
13:02let's just go through the scene, you know,
13:03and that scene took forever,
13:05because, you know, when you're feeling embarrassed,
13:07or you're feeling a little uncomfortable,
13:09that just goes on,
13:11and that's how it was.
13:13Okay, thank you.
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