Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; August 3, 2017)

Anushka Sharma’s Jab Harry Met Sejal releases this week. We decided to ask the actress if she remembered her first meetings with people she has worked with. So, here it goes — Jab Anushka met...

Aditya Chopra
It was at the audition of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (RNBDJ). Nobody expected him to be a part of the audition, but he suddenly walked in. I remember blabbering things to him because I was nervous. I told him that I was really stressed and God knows what else. I don’t even remember what nonsense I had spoken to him that time. I was talking s**t. That’s all I remember. He was really chilled out and he told me, ‘Whatever you have done so far during the auditions, just do that.’

Shah Rukh Khan
On the first day of the shoot for RNBDJ, he came as Suri. That’s not how I expected to see Shah Rukh for the first time. But it was nice to see a more rooted SRK. He was extremely nice, humble and sweet to me.

Yash Chopra
I met him after my first film. He came to congratulate me for RNBDJ. He just said, ‘Welcome to the Yash Raj family.’

Ranbir Kapoor
I met Ranbir at the Yash Raj gym. I was doing RNBDJ and he was doing Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, Shimit’s (Amin) film. It was nothing more than just an introduction. It was just ‘Hi, hello, I am Anushka, I am Ranbir’. He congratulated me for the film.

Karan Johar
That was again on the sets of RNBDJ when he had come to meet Adi and Shah Rukh. He just came and said ‘Hi’. Just a gentle hello and he wished me all the best for the film.

Ranveer Singh
It was during his audition for Band Baaja Baaraat. The team had called me to do a scene with him. And he was just being Ranveer! (laughs). He was hyperactive and restless. If you ask me what was my first impression of him, I would say, ‘Not much’ (laughs).