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Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan and Vatsal Sheth decided to make the best of their time while they were stuck in a nine-hour-long flight to Chandigarh

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Kunal M Shah

Preity Zinta

When Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan and Vatsal Sheth recently took a flight from Mumbai to Chandigarh little did they know that they'd be stuck in the flight for a really long time. The journey, which otherwise takes a little less than 3 hours took over 9 hours to reach its destination thanks to incessant Mumbai rains. All these three actors had to report for the outdoor shoot of Sameer Karnik's film Mera Bharat Mahaan.

Vatsal Sheth says, "It was one hell of a flight. It was totally unbelievable. It was raining heavily that day but we were told that the flight will be on schedule. It was a 10.30 am flight from Mumbai and we checked in as per schedule. However the flight refused to take off and we were stranded. Even the air-conditioning was not functioning and it was very hot and stuffy inside the aircraft."

It was good 5 hours later when the flight moved and moved till the runway and after that there was more bad news. The pilot informed that the runway was damaged due to water glitch on the runway and so they had to take a secondary runway which took another thirty minutes.

l-r: Vatsal Sheth and Sohail Khan

"Finally the flight took off and we heaved a sigh of relief. But we didn't know that there was more torture in store for us. The flight could not land at Delhi airport due to heavy traffic. We circled around for nearly one hour before the flight finally landed at Delhi before taking off for Chandigarh. We finally reached Chandigarh at 7.45 pm and I guess this was a flight which took us longer that it does to reach another country. It was really a bad day," says Vatsal.

He further adds, "Thankfully I had Sohail and Preity with me and we chatted endlessly and then we all decided to take a nap. After the nap when we had still not reached the destination, we all decided to rehearse our scenes and since we had lot of screen space in the film. It was great that we took this time to rehearse the scenes. I guess in these nine hours we did practically everything that we could do to while our time away. At the end of the day it was only because of Preity and Sohail that I managed to survive. Imagine if one of us was alone on the flight."