“Mangla, will you make me a cup of coffee please? Thank you,” Shriya Saran interrupts the telephonic interview to speak with her maid. And you can’t help wondering if the politeness was due to the fact that Shriya’s playing the role of a nanny in Cooking With Stella. “Well, I’ve always been polite with my domestic help but yes, the movie did change my perception,” says the dusky beauty, “I recently went for a party to my friend’s place and a teenage boy was serving us. I was so disgusted, I almost walked out!” she states.
And guess what, the actress says she had her maid on her mind when she was approached for the role. “I sort of copied her when it comes to the dressing style, the clothes, the no make-up look and the short nails,” she says. The film, co-written by siblings Deepa Mehta and Dilip Mehta and directed by Dilip, also stars Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas and Don McKellar. “It’s a cute film about human relationships,” says Shriya, adding that she had a great time working with her co-stars.
And that’s the reason she gets a tad miffed when we suggest she could have had a problem with the other actors, specially Lisa and Seema, being promoted more for the film. “Please! There are just four of us in the film, where’s the chance of one or two being promoted more than the others?” she asks and adds, “During workshops, all of us bonded like family. If the film does well, then all of us will be happy.” Shriya has reason to be happy after all, as her film was received with a lot of enthusiasm at the Toronto Film Festival recently. “We got a standing ovation for the film and even the critics loved it,” she says happily. For the moment, the actress is in the process of shooting for a few Tamil films but is keen to be cast in Hindi films as well.
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