Genelia D’souza, the bubbly actress is currently busy in promoting her film ‘Force’ along with John Abraham. Recently she gave an interview and talked about her films, culture differene of south, her link-ups with co-stars and of course about her relationship with Riteish. Excerpts……
Your sizzling chemistry with John is talk-of-the-town…
l It is, isn’t it? We’re both very relaxed people and we don’t bother about our perfect profiles on camera and looking perfect onscreen. There are a lot of intimate scenes in ‘Force’. It’s an action film, but it’s also a love story between two mature people. There’s a lot of sensuality in the film.
You’ve done intimate scenes, but what about kissing on-screen?
I don’t think onscreen kissing is required in Indian cinema. Most of the times it’s done to attract eyeballs.
You’re often typecast for your cute, bubbly image…
I tried to break that with this film. My character is cute and bubbly but at the same time, it is very mature. People think being cute is being clueless. It’s not like that. Cute people aren’t dumb, and I want to prove that.
Your Bollywood films are far and few?
I want to do more Bollywood films, but I also want to do films down south. For me, the language isn’t the determining factor for choosing a film, it’s the role. I’m part of 5 different film industries within India, and that’s very rare.
So any plans of moving on to another industry, like Hollywood?
Sure, if I get a good role in Hollywood, I’d love to do it. But there are so many industries within India, so I’m happy exploring everything there is here.
When do we see you do a ‘Munni, Sheila’ number?
I don’t think doing an item number is a necessity, but I’ll do it if I’m required to. I won’t ever do a sleazy number.
Over the years, you’ve been linked with Riteish Deshmukh. Now we hear talks of a wedding…
Yeah, I think Riteish has over-powered all my other link-ups! I did my first film with him, and when you start your career with someone, you become friends. You aren’t co-stars because you don’t know what professionalism is, in that sense. So Riteish and I have maintained the friendship and if and when there is something to announce, I will announce it to the world
