Shuddh Desi Interview with Parineeti Chopra

By Guneet Wadera - Filmicafe.com , 2 September 2013
Parineeti Chopra is the next big thing. If you didn't know, now you know. Since debuting as Dimple Chaddha in Maneesh Sharma's Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl in 2011, she has swept all the Best Debut Awards and has even added a National Awards Mention last year for her turn as feisty Zoya in just her second film Habib Faisal's Ishaqzaade. There is an unfiltered realness which comes across when one speaks to her and reflects as authenticity in her acting. Departing far from her real persona in Shuddh Desi Romance, Parineeti shares exclusively with Filmicafe on the practicality of love aaj kal (nowadays) and what makes a romance shuddhly (purely) desi.

What makes a romance Shuddh and Desi?
Parineeti: (Laughs) For me, a Shuddh Desi Romance is jisko hum bolte hain roz marra ka romance' (everyday romance). It is basically in everyday things. It could be the smaller things and not really the filmi things. Nowadays when we have a relationship with someone, nobody sings songs for us or takes us out for dates - all that is gone. It is more of okay come over, we'll sit at home watch TV and order in food. Doing those kinds of things for each other, the smaller everyday things. For me that is Shuddh because it comes directly from the heart and it is desi because it so prevalent in our culture.

Does that practicality of romance make our generation less romantic?
Parineeti: No, not at all. I think there is more romance in these things. Even my parents they are not clichd romantics. I have never heard my dad say the I love you(s)' or bringing flowers, those things don't exist for them but I know they love each other so much. They have been together for 27 years now because there is romance in their blood more than their actions.

Read full interview here: http://www.filmicafe.co/celebrity_interview_detail/307_After_Ishaqzaade_I_didnt_find_a_script_for_almost_eight_months:_Parineeti_Chopra