Patriotic Preity Zinta slipped into a cinema hall to whistle and cheer for Shah Rukh Khan in his new film.
Mallika Sherawat famously wore one last year to dodge the media when she was coming out of the airport in Mumbai from a foreign jaunt.
And singer Himesh Reshamiyya daringly got into one last month to slip into the Ajmer Sharif dargah incognito. We are talking about the burkha.
Which the attractive Preity Zinta wore on Independence Day eve so as not to attract attention when she went into a Bandra cinema hall to see Shah Rukh Khan%u2019s hit movie Chak De India with the junta.
Preity tells the story, %u201CI could have seen the movie in the safety and comfort of a multiplex, but to gauge the reaction of the audience, I had to sit among the masses.
I went along with my mom and cousin, hidden in a burkha, and because nobody could see me, I was at my buoyant best!%u201D
According to the vivacious actress, in her disguise, she was able to scream, whistle and cheer along with the audience for SRK and his team of women hockey players in the movie.
There were other women in burkhas as well among the audience, so she got away with it. Says Preity, %u201CThe movie has elevated patriotism to a higher level, it%u2019s given energy a new meaning and youth a new direction.%u201D
Coming from someone who is at the top of the Bollywood heap herself, and who made her debut with SRK in Dil Se, this is high and handsome praise indeed.
RE:Preity Zinta went in a burkha just for SRK
by Sujata Basak on Aug 15, 2007 10:25 PM Permalink
The two acted in a few more successful movies together, like Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Veer Zara and Kal Ho Na Ho. But Preity believes the Bollywood Badshah%u2019s performance in Chak De India is his finest so far. %u201CHe is mind blowing, too good to express in words, and I just love him,%u201D adds Preity. %u201C
It%u2019s rare for an actress to openly admit such feelings for a male co-star. And Preity unburdened these emotions on the man himself which SRK, in all his humility, accepted.
But then, Preity Zinta is known to be outspoken and honest, if not to wear her heart on her sleeve. Ness Wadia and Gauri Khan to please note.
