I was curious about her accent as well, so I went looking for her old interviews to see if it's changed. Her interview for her first films press conference (Boom) is on YouTube, and in it she has a more recognisably British accent. Although it's not a pure British accent (also sounds a little American), it sounds cleaner than the way she speaks now.
To me her accent now sounds like a mix of British / American / Indian. You can hear a bit of a British accent, some words she says with an American accent, but her speech has an overall Indian slant to it.
I think she now puts on a bit of an Indian actress, perhaps in a misguided attempt to 'fit in'. Or maybe her accent just has naturally changed, as she's been based in India for a long time now.
In her BBC Asian Network interview, her accent sounds a little closer to how it did in the Boom press conference. But that might be because she's talking to a British interviewer. She may be one of those people who unconsciously adapts her accent in accordance with the person she's talking to.
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