'Stop throwing garbage at me:' Anu...OMG

There have been reports of her war with Deepika Padukone. But Anushka Sharma can't help but wonder why people are drawing such comparisons between her and her peers all of a sudden. Feeling bullied and a bit cornered, the actress appeals for fair play. In an exclusive chat with Mirror, she says though someone is trying to pull her down, she will not take it lying down.

"There is no comparison between Deepika and me. Nothing links us. We do different kind of films. In fact she has done more films. I've been choosy. I have not picked up just about any role that came my way," she says loftily and goes on to face the allegations about snatching brand endorsements from Deepika by reducing her price, head on.

"I don't need to do that. I have enough brands. And each one of them has renewed the contract, some of them for the third time. I don't think that's happening with other heroines. I must be doing something right," she justifies and says that the A-list slot getting crowded with newer stars fighting their way up doesn't worry her. "What I offer, only I can. What others do, probably I cannot. I am working back to back with four top-notch directors," she tells us.

Anushka says she doesn't need to 'flash a rate card' to crack brand deals. "Today I command a premium. I have earned it. And I don't need to slash my prices. The best brands and filmmakers work with me happily and pay what I demand. But these are things that you don't flaunt," she says and as an afterthought adds, "Flashing yourself as an imaginary first choice when you're not even in the running is so tacky. There is no dignity in this and I don't need to resort to such tactics. The other day, someone said I wasn't Anurag Kashyap's first choice for Bombay Velvet and he had to clarify on Twitter. Why do such things in the first place?" Incidentally, the 'reports' suggested that Katrina Kaif was the first choice for the film that stars Ranbir Kapoor in the lead.

"Look at the guys (heroes, she means), they don't indulge in such things. And that's why I find it easier to be friends with them," Anushka, who has been linked to several of her male co-stars tells us and claims, "I am not a bitchy girl." But that doesn't stop her from digging out a story published a few days ago.

"A friend of Deepika had called up to say that she is doing Yeh Jawaani Hai Diwani and not Anushka. My 'friends' don't call, do they? I am Kashyap's and Hirani's choice. She is Ayan's and whosoever's. I never pull anybody down. That makes me nice, right?" she adds with her tongue firmly in her cheek. So, we move on to her other project - Rajkumar Hirani's Peekay, in which she reportedly has been paired with Sushant Singh Rajput and not Aamir Khan. "I'm opposite both," she says with much pride and explains, "Sushant has only eight days worth of work. Hirani's wife used to tell him that heroines never have a good role in his films. This time, he has changed that. I am proud that he chose me. Sushant is just a small chapter in my life."

Tossing her hair and biting her lip, Anushka appeals to her peers: Stop playing games. "Stop throwing garbage at me since I don't throw garbage at you. We call ourselves cool but we are actually not," she tells us and when asked whether this was a message for her competitors, she simply nods 'yes'. "I'm not saying I'm better or worse than X. I am in a damn good position myself. Nobody can take it away from me by deriding me," says Anushka angrily and holds up her hand to say, "Bas. Period."