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Hindustantimes and ScreenIndia Interviews-Nov 2008(2 interviews clubbed 2gether)
Katrina recently said that you're very unromantic in real life.
Yeah, she is right about that. I'm very unromantic
So what is your idea of romance?
Jo hai so hai...I am what I am...no pretense. No candlelight dinners for me please, I will be bored. Right from day one of my romantic relationship I do not promise the moon. You get what you see. But if you are in trouble, I will be there for you.
Why don't you openly admit your personal relationships ?
Look, my bedroom is my bedroom, and my living room is the whole world. I come from a family where we are taught to respect our elders. There are certain sets of do's and don'ts that I follow.
I will not kiss on-screen - even in Maine Pyar Kiya the symbolic kiss was done with a glass pane in-between.
Baccha baccha janta hai...that we are friends, why talk about it? Our seniors are watching us and it is not our culture to discuss these things. It is considered badtameezi - bad manners.
Baccha baccha janta hai...that we are friends, why talk about it? Our seniors are watching us and it is not our culture to discuss these things. It is considered badtameezi - bad manners.
Has your dad laid down these rules for you?
Oh, only the other day and I found my father fuming. He had just been watching one of my interviews on TV and he didn't like the way I was slouching on the sofa then," I wanted to smash the TV when I saw you sprawled like that," he thundered, "You are not that kind of a person, but people will think how ill-mannered these film folks are," he scolded me. Through that interview I was talking to millions of viewers and really I shouldn't be offending them. He teaches us adab and tameez.
Do you still jog around Bandra Bandstand and have a coffee at Barista?
I cycle around Bandstand and also take a rickshaw occasionally. Life hasn't changed much for me.
On 10 Ka Dum, you were most popular with mummies and aunties; can you give a percentage of your popularity with older women?
99.9 per cent mothers love me the problem arises only when I get close to their daughters (smiles cheekily)!
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Mr And Mrs Parshuram
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