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At
the museum, Preity ran into Shaad Ali and Sanjay Gadhvi.
"They wanted to know what I was doing there. I
wanted to know the same," she chortles, catching up
on some free time before she plunges into her next film
"Jaan-e-Man" with Akshay Kumar and Salman
Khan.
Speaking
of the two Yashraj protégés, Shaad and Gadhvi, Preity
has just completed a film with the production house.
"Siddhartha
Anand who directed me in 'Salaam Namaste' is
outstanding, definitely one of the best directors I've
worked with. The best thing is, Saif Ali Khan and I get
to mouth such incredibly funny lines, you know, not
double meanings and stuff. But genuinely funny and
credible lines."
While
she was in Australia, rumours flew fast and furious, the
major one being about her split with Ness Wadia, Nusli
Wadia's son and the Bombay Dyeing heir. She refutes the
rumour.
In
fact Ness Wadia was in Australia during the last lap of
her shooting, though not entirely for her sake. Business
beckoned him to the kingdom of kangaroos. He hopped,
skipped and jumped over to give Preity some quality
company. "Now when I'm back in Mumbai, he's in
Singapore," she laments.
Of
course, there's a future to the Wadia-Preity alliance.
It just needs nurturing, and time.
Rumour
number two from Australia: she fired her staff.
"Not
quite. But my spot boy got awfully homesick midway
through the schedule. He'd sob and beg to be sent back
home. What could I do? I had to manage on my own for the
rest of the schedule."
Preity
says "Salaam Namaste" is a very urban love
story that audiences will immediately connect with.
"You
know, after 'Veer-Zara' I wondered where I should go. As
far as being classically cool goes, no actress can go
any further than Yash Chopra. So I had to go into a
different direction.
"In
'Salaam Namaste' I got to be chic and cool. It isn't
artificially cool. It's a really, really cool film. And
I got to work with one of the coolest
co-stars. Saif and I go back a long way.
"He
was with me in my first film, 'Kya Kehna' and recently
we chilled out doing 'Kal Ho Na Ho'. This is our first
full-fledged feature together. And you've to see our
chemistry.
"Saif
is really adorable. He's one of my best friends. And to
tell you the truth, I'd rather do films with friends
than with people I don't get along with."
She's
all set to do two back-to-back films. "For the
first time I'll be shooting two films - Shirish Kunder's
'Jaan-e-Man' and Karan Johar's 'Kabhi Alvidaa Na Kehna'
- simultaneously. Normally I shoot only one film at a
stretch. But this time it can't be helped. And surely
one can't be inflexible about such things.
"But
the one thing that I won't do is shoot on Sundays. I
need that one day to myself to keep me going for the
rest of the week."
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