MUMBAI MIRROR (May 20, 2019)

Aditi Rao Hydari says that she had to get intimate with a stranger during an audition once. Making an appearance on a talk show, the actress revealed, “I don’t have any whacked-out stories from auditions, except Yeh Saali Zindagi, where I had to literally make out with someone I didn’t know.”

She was referring to Arunoday Singh, who was cast opposite her in the film, and was, by her own admission, polite. “But at that point, I didn’t know him, and he was a huge hulk of a guy and I was just like, ‘Uh...what’s going on here?’” she added.

Aditi also spoke about other aspects of her life, including how Mani Ratnam’s Bombay is what attracted her to the world of films. She was especially enamoured by the song “Kehna hi kya”.

The actress also opened up on her personal life, admitting that she had received her first love letter when she was just in the fifth standard. “It was really long. It was like, two pages. All I know is that it was from a senior. Very soon after that, I was packed off to boarding school,” she said with a laugh. Aditi remembers showing the letter to her mother. “I was nine at the time. It basically said that I was the most beautiful girl and blah blah. Now when I think about it, I’m like, ‘I was nine! How does that even work?’” she said.

Opening up on her “dating game”, Aditi, who tied the knot with actor Satyadeep Mishra when she was 21 and later separated, said: “If I got into a relationship like that at 21, my dating game would be zero, right? I don’t think I know how to date. After that, I joined the movies. What dating am I going to do?”