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Link-ups have always been a part of Urmila Matondkar’s life - when you’re one of the most glamorous actresses around, we guess that’s a part and parcel of your life. Thankfully, Urmila doesn’t disagree. “I am single in the city, and I guess I am having the best time of my life right now,” says the actress. “I have always maintained that relationships are very important to me. I have never been a frivolous person by nature. I have few, but very dear friends. I guess that is the reason people keep linking me up with them, but there is no truth in all this. Because relationships are so important, I can’t step in and out of them just like that. I am a very stable person, both emotionally and mentally. Also, I am financially and socially secure. I don’t see myself being in a relationship for any of these reasons. I think a relationship needs to take your personality and your whole persona to a different level. The man who can do that is the man for me or else I am quite happy being just by myself.”

Was she saying she didn’t need a man in her life at all? “Not at all. In fact, I think it is high time I met my Prince Charming,” laughs Urmila. “What I’m trying to say is that I can’t be in a relationship for the wrong reason. I think it is great and fantastic to be in love. I am a hardcore romantic, and I am always in love - if not with a man than with myself and my work, and with movies in general. I am in the best line of work, what else could I want? I am in dreamland already, so my real life doesn’t need to be dreamy. It needs to be real, to be a kind of reality check. When all those things do happen, then the link-up will finally be true!”

Had she always been an independent person by nature? Didn’t she even have crushes? That would be boring. “I’ve had loads of crushes. Even as I am speaking to you I have crushes,” reveals the actress. “I had my first crush in school. The guy was in the cricket team. I don’t watch cricket anymore. I only watch soccer and tennis. But I was completely into cricket at that time. And my entire gang had a crush on the same guy, so we used to ogle at him together. The crushes have been endless till date.”

What about serious relationships? “I wouldn’t want to talk about it right now and this interview is getting way too serious for me,” she laughs. It is difficult to believe that the sexy lady is single, so we persist. “That’s what I keep telling myself. It’s high time. So I hope all the men of the city read this and wake up. Seriously, I think men need to strike a balance between the reel life Urmila and the real life Urmila. I think there is definitely a large amount of intimidation that happens when I meet people. I don’t know maybe I should start playing dumb. That might work I could just be a bimbette. When I speak to people, suddenly they realise that Urmila is much more than her screen persona, and they can’t handle it. Frankly, I don’t think I make it easy on most people, because I feel that if it is worthwhile it will happen, and if it doesn’t happen, then it was not worthwhile.

“I have liked different people at different times,” confesses the Maharashtrian mulgi. “But you need time for a relationship, it’s not just a cliché, you really do. Relationships are very consuming in general. I am basically not a frivolous kind of person, either when it comes to friendships or relationships. I make friends rarely and with great difficulty, but when I do, it is for good. It is the same with a relationship. When it does happen it will be for good. But that will be with the right person and for the right reason, and for that we’ll just have to wait.”