•Priyanka Sinha: Nobody cries as well as you do. How do you do it?

I’ll tell you a very interesting story: my brother makes fun of me whenever I cry. He’s been calling me a tap since I was born. Whenever he used to irritate me, I used to go waaaaa. He was after me from the beginning — he was so jealous of me. One day, he picked me up from the cot and was about to throw me on the floor when my mother entered the room — in true filmi style — and said, ‘Raja! Nahin! Rani ko chod do!’ So he put me back on the cot. I think the story of my crying starts from there.

More seriously, I think, I enjoy playing roles where I get to cry. I like crying. But in my latest film, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, I have broken that mould, because my character is that of an angel and angels don’t cry. God has made angels so full of love that they only spread happiness. My character doesn’t know what a tear is, what sadness or sorrow is. She actually takes Saif’s teardrop and is intrigued by it. She wants to cry, she wants to feel like humans do. You’ll have to watch the movie to see if she cries or not in the film.

•Harneet Singh: Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic is your third film with Saif Ali Khan. Has he grown as an actor?

He is a great actor and has, of course, also grown as an actor. Saif and I respect each other as actors; we respect each other as individuals; we have a great rapport and that helps us improve our performances. At times, you have co-actors who are not interested in helping you or who are not interested in giving another take. But when you have an actor you are comfortable with and when the other actor understands your work ethics, you can surely improve. Saif makes it really easy for me.

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