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You were in Kolkata recently for the shooting of Barfee. But at that time, you tended to shy away from the media. Why?
After Anjaana Anjaani, you are paired once again with Ranbir Kapoor. How is it working with him? We became very friendly during the making of Anjaana Anjaani so our comfort levels now are very good. We had lots of fun on the sets for Barfee too. At the same time, for the difficult and challenging characters we are playing, we need to have some private space of our own to get into the mood of the character and the scene. As I have already tweeted on Twitter, special children I believe are the closest to God. Your confidence is amazing. Have you been like this from the beginning? Or has it come with success? Funny that people think I am confident because I was a girl who grew up with completely low self-esteem. I was a very shy, quiet and introvert girl and always buried in my books. But life changed one day suddenly and the rest you know all about. I strongly believe that if a shy girl with low esteem like me can do it, anyone can. It just took me one look into the mirror and ask myself some probing questions that needed me to be just myself and the best I could be. Which is the best fashion moment? Winning the Miss World Pageant is the best and most memorable fashion moment in my life. I depend on Noyonika Chatterjee for all my ramp shows and live walks. I insisted on including Noyonika in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion because I just want her to be there wherever and whenever I do my walk so that she has sit and watch me walk and says okay, it is just fine. In personal life, fashion for me is synonymous with comfort. One has to find out and define one’s personal style depending on what makes one feel most comfortable and what makes one look good at the same time. But fashion changes for a filmstar, doesn’t it? For everyone, it makes a difference. Change in fashion reflects, and sometimes decides personal styles too. I would love to be casually dressed in sneakers, jeans or track pants and a T-shirt. But being an actress, I cannot be casual all the time. Stylists and designers I am close to have contributed to my look and my dress sense. I experiment a lot with my looks and my style. Films give me scope to experiment with styles and looks. I cannot do it alone because it is the director’s perceptions I will be playing out on screen.
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It was not me shying
away as it was my director Anurag Basu’s strategy not to allow my ‘look’
in the film to leak out. I play an autistic girl in the film and
demanded a special kind of ‘look’ that might spoil the suspense of
the character and the film. I must face the media in the profession I am
in and there is no point in shying away as we are all into our
respective jobs. Barfee has me in one of my most difficult
characters over my career. I had to be with a group of autistic children
and it was a touching experience apart from being a learning one. I am
doing other important films too — Krissh 2, the Agneepath
remake in which I sport a very Indian, raw and rustic Maharashtrian
look.