How different is it to be working with your boyfriend on screen?
It doesn't really make much of a difference. At the end of the day, you are not really looking at whether he is your boyfriend or not, because you're in your workspace at that moment.
Your debut film took you to a red carpet premiere in London. Where is 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' going to take you?
Well I don't know what Yash Raj has planned for this film, but I'm sure it will go somewhere as far as the premiere is concerned and for the film, it will go places.
While Siddharth Anand's previous two films were big hits, Ranbir's 'Saawariya' was a complete no-no. Will 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' be Siddharth's hat-trick of hits and Ranbir's first big hit?
Most definitely that's what I believe. I think we all have worked really hard but more than us, Ranbir and Siddharth have worked that little extra to make the film better. I hope and pray that they both get what they want from Bachna Ae Haseeno.
As far as the pairing goes, don't you think Bipasha and Minissha are a bit of a miss-match combo for Ranbir?
(Laughs) I am not in charge of casting here. But the way the story is, the script goes, there are other characters required in the film and both Bipasha and Minissha have done a great job in the film, whatever little I have seen of the film. That's all I can say.
Brief us about your experience with Ranbir in different cities around the world you've travelled for the film.
Well, I only got to work with him in Sydney and then for the song "Khuda Jaane" in Italy. So both were great experiences. In Sydney, we were there for almost 25 days and there we were shooting the scenes. Italy was great fun too. It was 10 days of shooting this lovely romantic song in these beautiful locations. I don't think I would have discovered this beautiful place had we not shot this song there and now since we have discovered it, it's a place I would like to go for a holiday or honeymoon. The most exciting part of shooting this song was that we would shoot everyday and travel in the evening to another location set up in the next place and shoot again the whole day, I don't think anyone has ever travelled so much to shoot one song.
So is marriage on the cards?
I'm not thinking of marriage as of now definitely not at the moment.
"Khuda Jaane" sung by Kay Kay is slowly steadily topping the charts and we know that the song means a lot to you and Ranbir.
The fact that both Ranbir and me are in love makes the song even more special, because shooting the song was made a lot easier. It was a nice experience because it was the first time that we both were shooting for a romantic song together. I'm so glad that Vishal and Shekhar have managed to compile such a beautiful song for us with meaningful lyrics.
We seem to give a lot of credit to music directors and forget the choreographer and the cinematographer who are responsible to make the song visually perfect.
Most definitely in fact the day the song released, people started calling us from around the world and sent us messages that the song is looking lovely and is a big hit in all the cities. Having said that, the three people I called up first after the news broke out was Ahmed Khan, the choreographer, Sunil Patel, the cinematographer and my director Siddharth Anand for giving us such a beautiful song.
Tell us a bit about your costumes. Looking quite elegant, I should say.
Yes because my character is a young girl, an NRI who lives in Sydney. She is very trendy and forward in terms of fashion but at the same time, she is traditional in a way. So keeping all these aspects in mind the costumes were made and when you have a designer like Akki Narula on board, I don't think one really needs to worry about being styled in a certain way because I completely trust him. I've worked with him when I was a model and I'm really glad that I got to work with him in my second film.
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