Bidisha Roy and Krishnendu Sengupta - a couple from Kolkata - woke up to a bigcommotion in their downtown Chicago neighborhood on August 7. Clad in black, abiker was racing down the road with police cars in hot pursuit. Weaving in and out of the traffic, it looked like he would get away. Suddenly, the bike hit arough patch and crashed. As people watched in amazement, Take 2 began .
That's how the Bengali couple recalled the start of the Chicago leg of the shoot of Aamir Khan's latest film. But as the chase sequence was played out, the only person missing was Aamir himself. "We saw his stunt-double doing the action. He looked a little taller than Aamir and was dressed in black,"recalled Bidisha.
But the man himself - with a lean, mean look and a never-seen-before hairdo -arrived in a while. "It looked like he'd gone back to his Ghajini days. We had read reports of how Aamir wanted a new hairstyle for this film. During the day, he hardly took his hat off. But when he did, we could understand what might have prompted him to keep his look hidden - it's that different,"said Bidisha.
While the crowd grew to catch a glimpse of the star, Aamir sat with a book,unperturbed by the hullabaloo. "When not shooting or talking to the director, he was reading a book on Mahatma Gandhi," she added. Bidisha later found out that Aamir had put up in the building next to theirs. "Buthe chooses to stay indoors. Only on Eid, there was a huge bash at his apartment," she said. The cast has now been joined by Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra. "My husband met them and they were extremely courteous.We are now looking forward to the arrival of Katrina Kaif," she said.
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