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After four years in Bollywood, Amrita Arora finally seems to have found her bearings in Bollywood. She’s got four films in her kitty right now - Vikram Bhatt directed ‘Red’ and ‘Speed’, a BMG-Crescendo produced lover-story opposite R Madhavan and Hansal Mehta’s ‘Raakh’.

“People’s perception of me has changed after Mahesh Manjrekar’s ‘Deh’, where I play a 21-year-old opposite a 40-year-old man. Mahesh took me to another level, but I still have a long way to go,” says the actor.

Interestingly, working towards becoming heroine number one isn’t Amrita’s main priority. “I want to be appreciated for whatever work I do. If along the way I reach the top, then great!” she says nonchalantly. She admits to becoming more diplomatic. “I have learnt to keep my mouth shut, but I’ve never been a negative person. So most of the time I am very cheerful,” she says.
Currently dating English county cricketer Usman Afzal, Amrita is not known to hide her boyfriends. Is it difficult to keep the romance alive in a long distance relationship? “He plays at different places. I’m also busy shooting… just as I have had to work at being a better daughter and sister, similarly I have to work at being a good girlfriend.”

So that must involve watching more cricket, right? “I never liked cricket although Malaika (Arora-Khan, her sister) does. I watch the match when Usman is batting or bowling,” she informs.

Amrita recently turned down an offer to act in a film with her brother-in-law Arbaaz Khan (Malaika’s husband) because it required her to do intimate scenes with him. “I backed out because I was told those scenes were very important to the film. Sadly, I was not informed about this fact earlier,” she signs off.