They announced the film in May when I was in Cannes as a jury member. When I returned, I asked the producer that I'd still not seen the final script and now there were three faces -- Aamir, Rani and me. I was like -- what's going on?

I just needed to see the script. I really needed to see the role, not that it mattered who all they had cast. At the point, the producer said, 'Oh, Rani was just doing a small part for Aamir's sake and my sake,' because he was the producer of Saathiya as well. He said it was a four-five day role.

I said, 'If you say so, but I need the script.' It was June and I was to be leaving for Gurinder's [Chadha's Bride And Prejudice] schedule in England. They promised that they'd be coming to England to finalise a British leading lady and Aamir and Ketan were going to be coming to do the screen test and they would give me the final script there.

Ever since I had been calling them desperately while shooting in UK, and Gurinder is aware of this. By September, I was coming back to India and still waiting for the script. And over the year, they were saying it is an international film. I told them that I was contractually bound to agents so you deal with my agents.

Meanwhile, the supposed interactions had begun on that front and I was still awaiting a script. In October, when I was doing the India schedule of Gurinder's film, I suddenly heard in the media that there was a mahurat happening on November 4.

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