Shadowing Practice: Rendezvous with Simi Garewal - Preity Zinta (Platinum Collection) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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She's funny, clever, sexy, spunky.
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She's also gorgeous.
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You might call that the ideal package.
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An actress who seems utterly made for her times.
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And when you meet her, it's impossible not to like the delightful Preeti Zindha.
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Hi Preeti.
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Hi Simi.
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I'm so happy to be here tonight.
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I am so happy to have you here.
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I must tell you one thing before we start off anything, is that there is this one movie of yours.
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I know it's a very old movie, Kars.
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I love it.
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I have grown up imitating you saying, Monty darling.
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And I said, if I ever do a show, if I ever do this show, this is the first thing I'm going to tell you.
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So I'm glad.
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Okay, pretty darling.
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Shall we go on?
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You know, your career is on such a roll.
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You've got the best films, the best heroes, awards.
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I think I've been extremely lucky.
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Things have gone really nice for me.
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And to think it all happened because of the toss of a coin.
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Yes, how do you know that?
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I mean, is it a true story?
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Is it just a great story?
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No, it's not.
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It sounds like the perfect story, but no. I think when I met Shekhar, when he wanted to sign me up for Tadarampampam,
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and I was just like this little kid looking at Shekhar Kapoor, and I just wanted to be cool.
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So I said, okay, if it's destiny, then I'll just flip this coin.
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I said, heads, I will take film as the career tales I want.
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But if it had come tales, what would you have done?
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Truly?
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I wouldn't have signed that film.
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Don't be silly.
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I promise you.
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You took it so lightly.
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Just for style, anything for style at that point, yeah point yeah.
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Really there was no yearning to be an actor?
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No. You mean it can happen without that burning passion?
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I think the burning passion came when I started getting screamed at on sets.
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I remember my first film Kya Kehna where Sarojji you know she was just like
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kaha se leai ho is ladki ko and she doesn't know how to dance, she doesn't know how to lip sync, what is she doing here?
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What is this creature you put in front of me and I I felt extremely silly and stupid lip-syncing, you know, I'd start giggling it.
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Then I felt that, oh, you know, it can't be like this.
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I'm a human being, you can't talk to me like this.
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And I must work at it, and I try to push myself.
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You come from an army family.
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Yes.
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So do I.
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Really?
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Yes.
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Oh, great.
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Yes.
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Don't you find it's a completely different way of life?
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Yes, I do.
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In what way?
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The first way is that it's only in the army men get up when women enter the room.
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Discipline?
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Yes, discipline.
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No elbows on the table, no talking when you're eating, and stay out when elders are there.
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But I was always a bit of a rebel, so, you know, I broke every rule.
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And I was very naughty, very, very naughty.
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I can believe that.
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I've heard so many stories about you.
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You can.
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And your pranks, and your musty, and your mischief.
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I think I embarrassed my mother a lot.
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And now that I'm grown up and I see my friends with children, I'm like, oh, my God, I hope I don't have kids like me.
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Because the stories my mother tells me, I can't believe I was like that.
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Just tell me one of them.
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Well, they're each worse than the other.
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So I'll tell you the least.
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Shocking.
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Yeah, the least shocking.
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Well, you know, in the army, as you know, if children below 18 are not allowed for army parties.
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And it intrigued me to know what is happening behind those doors.
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So I asked my mom once that even I want to come for this party
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and they said no children below 18 are not allowed
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and I must have been 12 So I went to my mom's cupboard.
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I took out her bra.
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I stuffed it up with oranges Oranges?
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Yes, and I went outside to the club and stood like that and I said I'm 18.
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Can I go in?
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So then everybody, you know, this guy just kept looking at me and he got absolutely shocked No, he couldn't see them.
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It was under the shirt So he just looked at me like that and said, my dad was a major that time,
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called for Major Zinta, and my mum got so upset with me.
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My God, I remember that.
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She got really upset with me.
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So I think I was a bit crazy.
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What fun.
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But you still do them, don't you?
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No, I think with film, I really sober down, you know, in the sense that, yes, I'll always be me.
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But there's so much pressure to be the film star you have to be and I hate that pressure.
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There are times when I just want to be like this and there are times when, you know, I don't want to look good.
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But there's so much pressure.
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Sometimes you're walking on the street and somebody goes, Eee, that's Preeti Zinter.
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She's so small.
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Or, oh, some people will say, Are you so many people, but how many people look like this?
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You know, just the strangest things.
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And there is so much pressure to perform when you're on set because, you know, there's so much money involved with filmmaking.
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But there's more pressure outside set, you know, that whole image of yours you have to like keep.
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So you've had to sort of edit your personality a bit. For sure.
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It's a pity.
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Your father was a colonel in the army.
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Yes.
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You lost him when you were 13, Priti?
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13. Priti, didn't you have a dream, apparently, about an accident before it happened?
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No. No dream as such.
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But I remember telling my friend once, that was really strange.
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I mean, you know, I don't know if I should tell you about it.
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It was really strange.
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It was just a feeling that something is going to happen, you know.
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I used to read the news every day in school.
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You know, every week, one class would say the news or the prayers.
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So one day I told my best friend, Chagun, that, you know, I don't know why I feel that I'm going to read this news about my dad.
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And she told me, I think you've gone mad.
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And I was like, yeah, it's really strange.
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Yeah, that was very strange.
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I mean, it's weird.
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But I think maybe sometimes you say the strangest things.
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And sometimes when it comes true, it really shocks you, you know.
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How did he die?
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It was a car accident.
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Car accident?
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Yeah.
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The steering wheel got locked and it just happened.
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My mother was in it also.
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But luckily, thank God, she made it and he didn't.
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She injured every bone in her body, including her spine.
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And there was a time when she was just on that bed for a whole year.
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Ah, there were terrible times, my God.
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But that's when you also took it upon yourself to look after the family, your brothers and your mother.
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Well, I was a nut, you know, as a kid.
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I think I just grew up.
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That one week changed my whole life.
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I think girls are definitely much more mature than the boys because my brothers were shattered and I was shattered.
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Because nobody told us when it happened.
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They were worried that...
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What do you mean nobody told you when it happened?
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Well, I was in Simla.
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They were coming up to Simla to meet me.
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And when the accident happened, in the afternoon, my mum got to the hospital.
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They didn't tell us.
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It all happened so fast.
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Nobody said anything.
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They just said there was an accident.
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They told that to you in school?
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Yes.
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Early morning, this one nun woke me up and said, darling, you have to go.
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And I got really surprised.
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I was like, why is she being so nice to me?
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Because most of the nuns were not very nice to me because I was very naughty.
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And then she just said there's been a little accident and she just got me out and took me to a hospital.
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And there they told me that your father has been injured and he will be here later but your mum's here.
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And I saw my mum being wheeled in and she was unconscious but she could hear everything we were saying.
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Then early morning when I went back, the nuns were in mass and school had started so I had to go in the parlour and wait.
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and I read it in the newspaper.
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So it was really weird.
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And then when I came back, my grandfather told me.
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But you must have been in a critical shock yourself.
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Well, I didn't react till I think six months.
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I didn't cry.
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I had no reaction.
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And they tried to keep talking to me, but I just, you know, I never saw my dad's body.
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I never saw him.
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And because I never saw him, it never registered to me that it had happened.
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And I kept thinking, okay, you know.
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It's only after six months, one day in my sleep, I just started crying.
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And it just came out.
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And that was it.
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You said that your dad's death taught you more than you'd probably have learned had he been alive. For sure.
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Because every memory, everything he said, I just clung on to it, you know.
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He always told me that I don't want you to be brought up like a girl, you know.
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You're an equal to my two sons.
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He never gave an opportunity to them and not to me.
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If my brothers picked up their bags, I had to pick up my bag.
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If I was taught how to cook something, my brothers were taught how to cook the same thing.
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You know your friends say that you're so jovial, you always laugh a lot, and you never show them how tough it has been for you.
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Is that the army upbringing again?
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I think it's not a very good thing not to show your emotion.
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I show it now.
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If I have to cry, I cry.
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There are certain releases in your body.
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It's very important for you to reduce your stress levels that you need to cry.
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It's very, very important.
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You've majored in criminal psychology?
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Yes, I did a program in criminal psychology.
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I majored in English honors.
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That means the mind and human behavior must fascinate you.
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Yes, for sure.
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I studied male sexuality, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, a lot of things in it.
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But yes, what really fascinated me was why do people think like this?
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And if they do, why do they behave like this?
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Fascinating.
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Yes, extremely fascinating.
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How useful has it been in everyday life?
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I think it's made me a more, what should I say,
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more forgiving person forgiving is too big a word actually I think it's more tolerant yeah more tolerant more relaxed
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when I see something really crazy I say oh me there may be some problem
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but then that's also a thing like this is very easily used by people
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when they do wrong things that oh you know I had a bad childhood
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when I see people misbehaving
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and then people say oh forget it you know this one
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had a bad childhood then I say I'll you know I had some problems too when I was young
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I learned from them.
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Are you good at reading people?
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Yeah, I think so.
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I have a very strong gut.
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I know instinctively when someone's lying to me.
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I let my body listen sometimes, you know.
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I don't reason.
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I'm not a very rational person.
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I'm practical.
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Sometimes somebody may say something really nice to me, but I don't feel too good about it.
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Then I just think the person's not nice.
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Tell me, Preeti, you are known to be very extroverted, laughing, joking all the time.
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If there is nobody else around you, what sort of a person would you be?
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I'd die.
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I'm a people's person.
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I'd die alone.
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I hate to be alone.
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I can go travel all over the world alone.
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I can do everything alone.
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But if I had no one around me, I'd die.
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I'd just die.
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Just in ten seconds.
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When you admitted that you had received threats from the underworld, the cops called you the only man in Bollywood,
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I want to know, did you ever consider the other option?
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I'm very, that way is very clear with the law.
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I think that comes from the fact that I'm from an army background, you know, I'm very clean about it.
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But yes, when I stood in that court and I was standing there, my heart started beating really wild, you know, and I felt,
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oh my God, I'm in a courtroom and it's not shooting, real and the only thing that bothered me was
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that everybody was like she's the only man in Bollywood
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which was a lot of bull you know I think it
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was their way of showing their badge of what you've done
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I think it is also a way of showing how how
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double-faced our society is how sexist men are you know for
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men to applaud a woman they need to call her a man I accept
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that why can't they just say what a great thing this girl did and you were not fearful I don't care
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honestly I don't care I believe there is a destiny we
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all have I believe the day I have to go I
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will go irrespective of what I do I mean you know my father was in a car
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that the steering wheel locked steering wheels never lock in a car it was meant to be
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that taught me that you know you live your life the way you want to live
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and you live it with your head held high you know there is
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if tomorrow somebody has to kill me they will kill me you know but pretty did it ever make you feel vulnerable?
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Yes at some level I felt a bit helpless with the system
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and I think that's the first time I felt what kind of a country am I living in.
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You know what if I was this simple girl in a small town
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and this was not this case but a rape case about some rich man's son.
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They would have killed me.
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So it made, I got very, I felt really bad.
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I felt very let down with the system.
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Yes for then I felt very vulnerable
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that oh you know it's not a very wise decision to actually stand up
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and say because you know you there's no value for it
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and there should be value for it like I saw a big poster once
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and it was a very funny one it had this huge poster on
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that it was written Mera Bharat Mahan and in small letters down was written banana Preeti,
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you had announced to your friends that you would never get involved with an actor and nobody believed you.
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Never been attracted to your co-stars?
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No. What do you mean no?
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I promise you.
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I mean, I love all my co-stars.
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They're my friends.
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I respect the fact that half of them are married.
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And I do believe, I believe in Karam.
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If I do something and I put out some energy in this world, it's going to come back to me.
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I don't want to be that girl who some woman is sitting and cursing because she has ruined her marital bliss.
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So I've always stayed away from guys who are married.
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And number two, I've never got attracted to my co-stars because most of the time they're like, is my hair looking fine?
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Is my shirt looking all right?
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Is this fine?
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Is that fine?
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And I'm like, can you see this? and sometimes I'm like, can you see the big pimple on my nose?
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So our relationship is more two people in the same boat, you know.
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So is it only because you believe in karma or is it
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because you believe in fidelity or is it that you want to just protect yourself?
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All of it.
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I believe in fidelity.
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I don't want to be the third person.
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I have too big an ego to be number three, number two in anybody's life.
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Sure.
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And I don't believe in breaking homes, especially where kids are involved those kids end up growing complex.
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And, you know, I always look at a situation sometimes, even if I am attracted to somebody, I look at it.
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What are my options?
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Will I be so in love with this person that I want to marry this person?
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No. Is it a one-night stand?
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No. Most probably, I'll get involved with this person.
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It'll be great for a week, 10 days, a month, two months.
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And then we will hate each other.
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We want to kill each other.
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So why go down that lane, you know?
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And each and every co-star of mine, be it from Bobby to Akshay to Ajay, I love them all.
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We share the most awesome relationship.
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We talk rubbish together.
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I tell them, that guy's so cute, and they tell me this girl is so...
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We have the cutest relationship.
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None of them have ever tried to make a move on me.
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None of these guys, but you mean none of them ever, no stars, have ever tried to flirt with you?
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No, I think they know.
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You always...
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It's an energy.
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It's a vibe.
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I know instantly when a guy is attracted to me.
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I know, even if he's in that corner of the room.
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It's just a vibe.
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It's just the way the person looks at you.
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I've never tried to pout and pose and be, hey, baby.
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Plus, I'm not conscious of men.
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if I'm sitting like this in a room
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and the best looking guy comes I'll still be sitting like this I know a lot of girls sometimes
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and not being derogatory to them
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but some friends of mine also you know they're like yeah
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and then what happened and suddenly this guy comes
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and what I was saying was and I look at them
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and go hmm so you know it's like they suddenly get all proper
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but I find a lot of wives whether you do something
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or not they just are so insecure I think Women are very instinctive.
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I know when somebody is flirting with my boyfriend.
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I know.
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I know when a girl likes him.
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The way she looks at him.
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It's just, you just know.
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Would you do anything about it?
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I don't.
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I'm very secure.
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I don't.
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Would you mention it to him? Of course.
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You would.
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I'd drag him about it and go, yeah, yeah, yeah, and all that, but otherwise, no. It's nice.
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I feel proud if I'm with somebody and women want that person.
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It makes me feel good that, you know, rather than everybody going, yuck, who is she hanging with, you know?
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So it's nice.
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It's a nice feeling.
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When these rumors of you and Aamir and Sanjay came around, God, you must have been absolutely aghast, opposed.
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I was really shocked, actually, and very pissed off because I love Sanju.
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I love him.
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I have loved him since I was a kid.
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And he is like Papa Bear to me.
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He doesn't even call me Preeti, he calls me Yaaku.
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He's like, Yaaku, what's up, man?
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He's always treated me like I'm his kid sister.
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He's always put his arm around me and said, are you fine?
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Is everything fine?
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So for me to be linked with him was disgusting.
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Gross.
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Aamir is a very dear friend.
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We had a great working relationship in Dilchaatai.
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And when things were not happening properly in his personal life, I was the nearest candidate because the last film he did was with me.
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So suddenly I became Mrs. Amir Khan.
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And I had to go around saying, not married.
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But it's really funny because, I mean, these were the guys you were not even involved with.
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The one you really are involved with for the last two years, not a cha-cha about.
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It's not that I hide it from the media.
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We go to parties together.
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We go out anywhere we have to.
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We go to have coffee in barista maybe, you know.
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We go to eat a pizza.
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We go to watch movies.
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We are together everywhere and I just don't talk about him because what do I say?
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And how I feel and how lovely it is.
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I don't need to say those things.
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Those are things that I cherish.
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But what does your boyfriend feel about your career?
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It's just a job for me.
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Does he ever feel it comes in the way of your time with him?
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Sometimes, but I think now we've been seeing each other for two years, two and a half years now.
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So So he's used to it.
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Our time is our time.
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Nothing comes in.
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But yes, sometimes I get pushed around a bit.
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But I have that one month where my entire, yes, one month, and two weeks in summer.
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That's not much.
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It's a lot.
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It's like if you go diving, you come out, that five seconds of air is enough to take you down the whole time.
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But is it enough to keep a relationship going?
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Yes.
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I'm glad to hear that.
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I mean, till now, touch wood.
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Touch wood.
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You said that you don't want to be here forever.
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Yes.
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And you want to get married, have kids, leave showbiz.
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I don't think I could handle it after some time.
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It's too much pressure.
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I just want to live.
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I want to fly.
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I want to run.
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I want to, you know, just do what I want.
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Because I don't want my life to go by me.
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And one fine day I just said, it's over. But, but.
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Where did it go?
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Exactly.
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I want to enjoy it.
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I live every moment to the fullest.
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I'm here right now.
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I'm having the most awesome time on this interview, you know.
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And those guests are nice that don't stay too long.
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You know, so I think...
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So when you think of quitting, will it be with a toss of a coin again?
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No, it's when I want to have children.
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And that won't be very far away.
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Well, my third eye sees you.
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You know I have a third eye.
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My third eye sees you very happily married.
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Three kids.
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Three?
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Yeah, three.
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No, no, two.
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Family planning.
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I see you settled in Europe.
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In Europe, strange.
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Denmark maybe, I don't know.
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I see you living and loving life every minute of it.
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Yes, for sure.
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I wish it could have been longer, but you have to come back again.
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I would love to.
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I think you are a terrific person.
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Thank you.
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It's been a pleasure to be here.
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Thank you so much for this rendezvous.
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You're welcome.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Rendezvous with Simi Garewal - Preity Zinta”. This video has 423 sentences and 3963 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:31. The speaker talks fast, about 184 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| fascinate verb | /ˈfæsɪneɪt/ | To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| steer verb | /stɪɹ/ | To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). |
| naughty adjective | /ˈnɔːti/ | Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). |
| darling noun | /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ | Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one. |
| coin noun | /ˈkoɪ̯n/ | A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle. |
| injure verb | /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. |
| shatter verb | /ˈʃætɚ/ | To violently break something into pieces. |
| flirt verb | /flɚt/ | To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. |
| fidelity noun | /fᵻˈdɛlədi/ | Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties. |
| tolerant adjective | /ˈtɑːləɹənt/ | Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something. |
| nun noun | /nʌn/ | A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together… |
| sync noun | /sɪŋk/ | Harmony. |
| toss verb | /tɔs/ | To throw with an initial upward direction. |
| vibe noun | /vaɪb/ | An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| come around verb | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first. |
| come up to verb | To approach. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Yes, how do you know that?
- I mean, is it a true story?
- You mean it can happen without that burning passion?
- Don't you find it's a completely different way of life?
- You've majored in criminal psychology?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if it's destiny, then I'll just · if it had come tales, what would you |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have grown · I've been · have gone |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are not allowed · were shattered · has been injured |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the least shocking · the strangest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 99 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shatter /ˈʃætɚ/, showbusiness /ˈʃoʊˌbɪznɪs/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
- Long words — get the stress right: psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, derogatory /dɪˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, instinctively /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪvli/, irrespective /ɪɹɪˈspɛktɪv/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like fascinate, attract, steer.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.