Sushant And I Have A Khatta-Meetha Equation: Kriti Sanon

How did your parents react to your career choice?

It was very gradual for me and so it didn’t come as a shock for them. I had started modelling when I was doing my BTech.

Initially, my father was sceptical, but eventually he used to be the one most excited seeing my television commercials or print ads.

As I was dreaming of becoming an actor, they were aware of that dream.

I started loving the process of shooting. I enjoyed the little bit of acting that commercials required. I was always into dancing, but I had never done theatre.

I wanted to move to Mumbai and give it a try.

I had refused two job offers. They were aware and very supportive of my decision. My parents always encouraged us to follow our dreams.

I had a little deal with them. I agreed to give my GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) and get a good score. It remains valid for five years.

I moved to Mumbai when I was trying for two films. I had shot for one schedule for my Telugu film, Nenokkadine (2014).

Then there was a two-month gap where I signed Heropanti (2014). That was also the time where I gave my GMAT; I got a score of 7, which was considered pretty good.

You have done couple of films in the South. How difficult was it to act in a language that you don’t know?

I will give credit to the fact that I have done BTech because of which I could work under pressure.

So I could memorise the dialogues. Obviously, you can’t just memorise and speak without knowing what you are saying.

I used to call the assistant director and ask him the meaning of each and every word. A lot of people used to perceive that it was as easy as saying 1, 2, 3, 4. It was more difficult because there I had to really concentrate on dialogues.

The one disadvantage there is that as an actor you can’t improvise if you don’t know the language.

Sometimes, if the other actor improvises, then you are in trouble.

I didn’t dub. No matter what I do, I will not sound so authentic when I speak the language. It doesn’t sound right.

It’s almost like a firang (foreigner) talking in Hindi.

Sushant Singh Rajput and you watched the IPL final in Hyderabad. Did Sushant turn you into a Dhoni and Rising Pune Supergiant fan?

I was supporting Pune mainly for Dhoni. Yeah, I was seated next to the reel life Dhoni. He was going to box me if I didn’t support Dhoni.

I haven’t been a cricket fan, but slowly watching the film (M S Dhoni, in which Sushant starred as the Indian cricket legend) I came to know how Dhoni is.

I’ve always felt that Dhoni has this goodness and honesty on his face, which is very rare.

You may not know him, but you really feel that he’s a really good guy.

In the Raabta trailer, Sushant’s character, Shiv, is cheesy. During the trailer launch you said Sushant is like that in real life too.

Shiv has got a very good sense of humour. He says all these cheesy lines, but they are funny. I personally feel humour is a very important part of a personality.

If a guy can make me laugh, no matter how cheesy his line is, I would react to it.

At times, Sushant’s one liners are almost like Shiv. They are funny.

Earlier, when he said these one-two cheesy lines, I told him that he’s actually like Shiv. He would say, ‘I am just getting into method acting and I am getting into the character’.

He continued to do so even after the film got over (laughs). I told him it is high time you get out of this character. Some things about Shiv are part of Sushant.

What kind of equation do you share with Sushant?

It’s a fun equation. We do care about each other a lot.

When I was doing action sequences, he knows that I clumsy.

He used to keep a watch over me, check if I was wearing the harness the right way, check if I was landing the right way.

We are caring and sweet to each other.

We are good friends, we can have conversations, but at the same time we are strongly opinionated people.

We do have our tiffs, arguments on everything; neither of us agrees to be wrong.

At times we fight even when we give interviews like kids. We kind of have a khatta-meetha equation.

There has been so much chatter about you and Sushant.

Initially, it came as a surprise. The first few articles were more about Budapest. One article spoke about a concert which neither of us went to.

We were blaming each other whether any one of us went to the concert without informing the other.

In between, it became a little annoying when we both started reacting on separate platforms.

It gets a little annoying when one starts involving families.

We’ve just taken it with a little bit of laughter. We take it more like daily soap.