Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) After director Ram Gopal Varma decided to shelve his 'Time Machine' with Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor, rumours were abuzz that the actress regretted his decision because she lost an opportunity to work with her favourite actor.
'Do you think I am the kind of person who would sit and mope over a lost film? No way! There is so much more to life than cinema. I feel I have just begun to discover the beauty of living. And there is so much more to cinema than one role in one film. 'Yeh nahin aur sahi',' Kareena told IANS in an interview.
In fact, she is enjoying one of the best phases of her life with her boyfriend Shahid Kapur and says there are other interesting things to keep her occupied.
'Right now I am going through the most beautiful phase. Things couldn't be better with Shahid. And with Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Omkara' around the corner, I feel I am just starting out.'
So, you have no regrets at all about losing out on working with Shah Rukh in Varma's 'Time Machine'?
'Oh come on, you know me better than that. I know journalists with fertile imagination wrote that I was very upset when I heard about Ramu shelving the film. First of all, my cell phone wasn't working at that time. So I had no way of knowing anything, or getting upset about it.
'Secondly, I was having ball doing world concerts with Shahid. No time or appetite for regrets. It's just one more film. Very frankly, I hadn't even been signed for it. It was just a verbal agreement. Projects come and projects go. There'll be many more opportunities to work with Shah Rukh in future.'
But according to know-alls Kareena said no to Harman Baweja's launch film because of the Varma-Shah Rukh project?
'People have to say something,' she sighed dramatically.
'Let them say what they want. My decision to not do Bawejas' film had no connection with the SRK (Shah Rukh Khan) project. In fact, I am going to Malaysia to join Priyanka Chopra who's replaced me in the Baweja film. And I see no tension between us. Priyanka and I get along really well. And that won't change. Actors keep replacing one another all the time. Big deal!'
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