Actress Anushka Sharma, who teamed up with late filmmaker Yash Chopra for the first time for
Jab Tak Hai Jaan, says she would have felt empty and incomplete if Chopra wouldn't have told her about her performance in the movie.
"When we were shooting I always had long conversations with him
(Chopra) but someone was always around like Shah Rukh, Adi and others.
The last time I met him was at Rani Mukherjee's house for Ganpati puja.
He called me and spoke to me for one hour about everything," Anushka
said in an interview here.
"He told me what he thought about me in the film. He singled out some
scenes which he thought I did very well. He told me where I was looking
nice.
"Anything that I would have wanted to hear from my director post
watching the film, he told me that day. I could have missed that
opportunity as sadly he is not with us now," the actress said.
Anushka got her first role at the age of 19 opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Yashraj banner's
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' in 2008.
She did a string of films with the banner like
Badmaash Company,
Band Baaja Baaraat,
Ladies VS Ricky Bahl but got an opportunity to be directed by Yash Chopra in
Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
"I would have never heard those things from him. It is all bizarre
that before he left he told me what I had wanted to hear from him. I
would have felt...empty, incomplete that Yashji did not tell me how I
was in the film," she said.
As Anushka was working with Chopra for the first time she wanted to make sure she gave her best.
"I was like was he happy with my performance? He could have taken any
actress but he chose me and I just wanted to make sure he was happy
with the decision. I hope I justified his choice and he told me I
did...that was the last conversation I had with him," she added.
"Before we started working on this film I knew him (Yash Chopra) as I
was launched by the banner. I had a few short conversations with him.
Only when you start working with a person you get to know him better,"
she said.
Releasing on November 13,
Jab Tak Hai Jaan stars Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in the lead.
"When I used to meet him earlier there was a little bit of distance
like when you respect someone so much, there is a little awe factor.
When I started working with him I realised he was so relaxed, funny, had
fantastic sense of humour. He was so warm and genuinely concerned about
actors and crew," she added.
The
Band Baaja Baarat star describes Chopra as cool, funnier and young at heart person.
"Yashji was cooler, funnier and younger. I think age is just in the
mind, I feel I am older than him in thought process. His sense of humour
was so good, he was cool and fit.
He took things lightly," she said.
Anushka was also full of praise for Yash Chopra's son and director-producer Aditya Chopra.
"Adi (Aditya Chopra) is very special to me as he is my first
director. Adi is also funny but his sense of humour is not as good as
Yashji. He tries to do everything correctly, transparent and does it
principally," she added.
