It's the comfort, I think. Shaad has the comfort of knowing he can be himself in front of me and he want be judged, and I love him for the person he is. And vice versa, I can be completely me and I have no inhibitions from him.

He's a very open person and I think that's very exciting for an actor, and most importantly, he loves his artists. Nothing is more important to him, and he is very protective about them, literally treating them like children.

Although this is my second film under Shaad as a director, I have done four films in which he helped on humour: he even worked on Guru with me. He's a great friend and one of the primary reasons I 'got' humour. I think when there is chemistry between the director and his actor it always comes through.

It's because he demands a lot. Jhoom is very unrealistic, and in terms of what is required of an actor, it can scare you. Like you are standing outside one of the great institutions in Paris, about which he have learnt in school, and you are outside dancing with 50 French dancers -- rather ostentatiously and madly -- in this very messed up look, singing Ticket to Hollywood with vulgar movements!

So he has to help you forget there is a world around you, and keep you in the work of the film and Shaad always manages to do that.

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