What is Ek-The Power Of One about?
It’s a very cute love story loosely based on a Telugu film. The film tells us how love has the power to change even the toughest people. Set in Punjab, the film focusses on human emotions and will present Punjab as never before.

What’s your role in the film?
I play Bobby Deol’s love interest Preet, a cute girl who thinks that she is the most beautiful girl that God has created! She’s not arrogant but very naïve, like she keeps asking God why he has made her so beautiful.

What’s the best thing you liked about your director Sangeeth Sivan?
He’s the coolest man I have worked with. Besides giving every actor his space, he remains unruffled in the toughest of situations. I never saw him lose his temper even once during the shooting of Ek…

Is Nana Patekar as temperamental as he is supposed to be?
No. I didn’t find him temperamental at all. He’s a fun person who would keep singing old songs or keep sketching by himself. As an actor, he’s extremely passionate about his work and always gives cues to his co-stars.

How’s Bobby Deol as a co-star?
Very chilled-out! He helped me a lot with my Punjabi accent and some Punjabi dialogues and would tease me saying ‘Haye o rabba’, my catch- line in the film.

Has the film left any lasting impact on you?
I always leave a character and a film behind once the work is complete. But yes, I will always remember the good times we had on the sets of Ek…

Do you feel that you have not been given your due in the Hindi film industry?
I think everything comes when it is due. I give my best to all my projects, and won’t deny that I am waiting for that script and challenging role that will leave a mark in Bollywood.

Do you regret doing films like Awarapan and Mission Istaanbul?
I feel bad that the films did not do well. Regret does set in sometimes, but then I try and think logically and of better things ahead.

With whom among the current lot of directors would you like to work?
All of them! I loved films like Luck By Chance, Jab We Met, Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na and Dev D and am really impressed with the innovative scripts and presentation by the young directors of today.