The dimple queen Preity Zinta has stunned us over the years with her effervescent energy, she wowed us with her work over the years in films started off her career with a coin toss.
Talking to Simi Garewal, she said, “It sounds like the perfect story, but no. I think when I met Shekhar, when he wanted to sign me up for Tara Rum Pum Pum, I was just like this little kid looking at Shekhar Kapur. And I just wanted to be cool, so I said, ‘Okay, if it’s destiny then I’ll just flip this coin. I said, ‘Heads, I will take film as a career and tails, I won’t’.”
Then after Simi asked her what she would have done if she got tails, she said, “I wouldn’t have signed that film. I promise you.” The actress left Simi stunned when she revealed that she had really taken a film offer lightly, she said, “Just for style, anything for style at that point.”
Talking to HT, she said that it was her destiny that she wasn’t a part of the movie Tara Rum Pum Pum, “For once I was quiet. The only thing that came out from my mouth was, ‘Oh’. Years ago, I went around telling everyone that I’m doing a film titled Tara Rum Pum Pum. Now I can’t.”
Talking about her first film, she said, “I remember my first film Kya Kehna, Saroj ji yelled ‘Kahaan se leke aaye iss ladki ko, she doesn’t know how to dance!’ I felt silly, stupid with lip-syncing. But I told myself I’m a human being and you can’t talk to me like this. So I must work on it and push myself.”
She also further asserted that her pairing with SRK was the best, “I began my career with Shah Rukh…more than a friend, he has also been my mentor. He taught me everything I know, from how to stand, and how to give dialogue delivery, and how to pause in a scene. I love him for that.” as quoted by The Indian Express.
