interview | I have to finish five films this year : Priyanka Chopra

Q: The year ahead sure looks busy for you.

A: Thank God for that! I am back after being in a sabbatical for a year and half. ‘Love Story 2050’ will be my first release after ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’. I have been working on ‘Drona’, ‘Love Story 2050’, ‘Fashion’, ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ all this while and it ‘s been a long wait for my releases.

Q: Apart from Harman, what was the exciting part of Love Story 2050 (LS)?

A: (Laughs) Well, the most exciting part about Love Story is the film itself. It is the first of its kind in India people haven’t seen SFX of this kind in Indian cinema.

Q: Not even in Krrish?

A: Not even in ‘Krrish’. Sure it was India’s first superhero film with fantastic SFX. But LS is India’s first sci-fi film. I am proud to be a part of both these films. The SFX in LS will set a high bar in India.

Q: This is your first double role too, How have you made both the parts different?

A: Both the roles are different in terms of the character sketches as well as looks. The first part is of Sana, a present-day girl - she’s very soft spoken, poetry loving, diary writing girl living in Australia.

Zayesha, on the other hand, is a pop star in the year 2050. She’s boisterous, arrogant, loves herself - yet she’s a girl inside, she feels lonely, as she doesn’t have much of a family. Her parents died in a car crash and she only has her Nani.

Q: What sets Harman apart ?

A: Harman has very emotional and expressive eyes, which is very important for an actor. This film does not look like his first. He’s very professional - like he is always on time. He knows filmmaking very well as he has studied it. He definitely has an edge over a lot of newcomers.

Q: Of your half dozen releases in this calendar year, what will come next?

A: After LS, it will be ‘Chamku’. I have done several films with Bobby Deol including ‘Dostana’. I am very close to him and his family. Sunny Deol, after all, was my first film.

Q: How’s Fashion going? How much has it been canned so far?

A: We are through with 70 per cent of ‘Fashion’. My character has a great graph spanning over two years of her life. She wants to be a model, becomes one - this is the story of her rise and fall. Each part of the film is very vital because I have lots of different looks through the film. ‘Fashion’ makes me nervous because I was in the fashion industry only for three months from Miss India to Miss World. Noyonika Chatterjee taught me how to walk the ramp then and I insisted that she be a part of the film as well.

Q: How does it feel to be the busybee?

A: I have to finish five films this year. I go home at twelve, take off the make-up, sleep, wake up at six and then get back to work. I have too much to do and have to finish it fast because I have to prepare for Vishal Bhardwaj’s film.

Q: How was your Dostana schedule in Miami? Are you wearing a bikini in the film?

A: Miami was my best outdoors yet because I have a lot of cousins there. I enjoyed working with my director, Tarun and Karan of course is such an involved and indulgent producer. It was like a big party. To answer your question now - no, I don’t wear a bikini in ‘Dostana’, I wear appropriate beach-wear though.