You are one of the rare actresses in the industry who have worked with all four Khans. Salman, Aamir, Shah Rukh and Saif are very different as actors. How would you compare them?
They are all four such different people and I am so glad you mentioned that. I don't understand why they are all pitted against each other all the time. They are very different people who make very different kinds of films. People have to understand that there was a time when there was a Raj Kapoor, a Dev Anand, a Dilip Kumar and a Rajendra Kumar. They all co-existed without all this rubbish competition.
As for their working styles, Aamir is very methodical and precise while Salman is more chilled out. Salman pretends like he is not concerned about anything or that he doesn't know anything, but he is very sharp. Shah Rukh is a team player. He wants everyone to be their best on set. That's what I love about Shah.
Though in the last few years since you got married, it seems like you've only signed up for big blockbuster kind of films instead of taking risks like you did with films like Dev, Chameli and even Jab We Met...
Ya... and it was a conscious decision. I was entering a new phase of my life and I wanted to focus on that a little more than my work. So my priorities did shift from working round-the-clock to setting up a home, travelling and spending time with Saif and my new family. Instead of taking a break to settle in, I wanted to do films that seemed safer'. I wasn't ready to experiment. I knew the day I got settled in my personal life, I'll open the door to all kinds of films and the offers will come. That's exactly what happened.
It was really hard to pick from the offers that I got. I have an Udta Punjab and Balki's film and Rajkumar's (Gupta) thriller. I did try with a film like Heroine, but it didn't work. Having said that, I love my song-and-dance routines. Like I am doing an item song in Brothers (starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra). But again, when you see the song you'll see how much fun I am having.
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