Yeh Nahin Koi Aur Sahi: Kareena

After director Ram Gopal Varma decided to shelve his "Time Machine" with Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor, rumours were abuzz that the actress regretted his decision because she lost an opportunity to work with her favourite actor.

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who would sit and mope over a lost film?" she asks me, and then bursts into laugher.

"No way! There's so much more to life than cinema. I feel I've just begun to discover the beauty of living. And there's so much more to cinema than one role in one film. Yeh nahin aur sahi.

Right now I'm going through the most beautiful phase. Things couldn't be better with Shahid. And with Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara around the corner I feel I'm just starting out."

Isn't she regretful about losing out on working with Shah Rukh in Ram Gopal Varma's Time Machine?

"Oh come on, you know me better than that. I know journalists with fertile imagination wrote that I was very upset when I heard about Ramu shelving the film. First of all my cellphone wasn't working at that time.

So I had no way of knowing anything, or getting upset about it. Secondly I was having ball doing my my world concerts with Shahid. No time or appetite for regrets. It's just one more film.

Very frankly I hadn't even been signed for it. It was just a verbal agreement. Projects come and projects go. There'll be many more opportunities to work with Shah Rukh in future."

But according to know-alls Kareena said no to Harman Baweja's launch film because of the Ramu-SRK project?

"Kuch to log kahenge," she sighs dramatically. "Let them say what they want. My decision to not do the Bawejas' film had no connection with the SRK project.

In fact I'm going to Malaysia to join Priyanka Chopra (who's replaced me in the Baweja film). And I see no tension happening between us. Priyanka and I get along really well. And that won't change,. Actors keep replacing one another all the time. Big deal!".