Working with Yash Chopra’s banner has made Lara ambitious. She won’t work without a hard-bound script. From now on Lara has made it clear… no script, no deal. “To my good fortune more directors are coming up with scripts rather than ideas. I’ve realised that’s the only way to work,” she says.
And that’s not all, Lara wants audiences to mention her in the same breath as Nutan and Smita Patil. Lara actually reminds a lot of people of another luscious legend, namely Mumtaz. “Yeah,” Lara laughs. “In fact I’ve modelled my role in Jhoom Baraabar Jhoom on Mumtaz. After a long time it’s a performing role, and a very tough one. I play a Pakistani-French. I had to speak Hindi with a French accent. Quite a tonguetwister. And it was in-sync sound! To make matters worse Abhishek was speaking in this hardcore Punjabi accent.” In the film, Lara plays Abhishek’s fiancée. “The last fiancée of his life,” she jokes.
Abhishek and Preity Zinta are almost like insiders in the Chopra Camp. Didn’t that make Lara an outsider? “Both Bobby and I were ‘outsiders’. And at first we were like, wow… a bound script! They make it so easy for every actor. Most of the time all you’ve to do is look and act passable,” she smiles.
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