Shriya Saran has just wrapped up the shooting for Deepa Mehta's film What's Cooking? under the banner of BR Films. Shriya says that director Deepa Mehta is an institution by herself.
Sharing her acting experience about working with Deepa, Shriya said, "An actor gets to learn a lot through her style of filmmaking and workshops done regularly with her. We needed to rehearse before each and every scene. We had to enact the scene to perfection. This process made us feel very comfortable with each other. We were even asked to improvise on our roles. When she would not be satisfied, she would give her creative inputs, get the scene right, and then make us shoot. Believe me, it works. After the rehearsals, when we had to give a take, it used to be so smooth."
Shriya considers her What's Cooking? co-star Seema Biswas to be a school of acting. "Seema is flawless in front of the camera. I got to learn a lot from her. Working with actors like Rajinikanth or Seema is a learning experience for any actor," says Shriya.
After her success in the South with films like Sivaji, Shriya is looking forward to a host of films in Bollywood. There's Mission Istanbul by Apoorva Lakhia, Ek with Bobby Deol and Nana Patekar and directed by Sangeet Sivam. Besides, she is also acting in Ashok Amritraj's Other End of the Line, her first Hollywood venture.
