I think the main aspect is the confidence. When I took on Bunty aur Babli, there was a huge confidence problem because I wasn't sure whether I would be able to manage that level. I tried very hard to maintain a very high pitch, something Shaad really likes. Shaad is a believer that anybody can do that, but to carry off a character which is very high octane is very tough. I thought Bunty was one such character, very tough to do.

After I completed Bunty aur Babli and saw the film, I had confidence in Shaad. In the sense that he always believed in me as an actor and I was happy that he managed to take out the performance in me. So when Jhoom came along there wasn't any apprehension towards the film or the character, although it was ten notches above Bunty aur Babli in attitude and pitch, but now we were more bullish about the film and we said 'let's do it.'

One criticism that came our way for Bunty Aur Babli was that audiences felt it was like two separate films. That it shouldn't have been a serious love story at the end, that audiences just wanted to see the madness of Bunti and Babli. I felt, in some part, maybe we and the filmmakers felt that we have to give it some sort of gravity to justify the characters and make them more human, and that we can't make a film which is just a laugh riot, showing these two kids doing crazy things.

I think we weren't confident enough and trying to be a bit safe, but we throw emotions into the wind with Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. It's gone all the way, and it's a thoroughly entertaining film, it's very funny. It's what Adi (Aditya Chopra, producer) says, 'masala to the core,' and I think that's how we have grown, Shaad and me. I think we have the confidence to take on more like Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and blow it up and play it on the scale and the way we want it.

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