Mystery #4
Going by box-office figures, around Rs 420 crore is what your two movies have grossed this year, which makes you the No. 1 female star, But your biggest achievement is starring in a Salman film, Sultan, and actually bagging a proper female part that you even had to prep for! How did that work out?

Anushka: Adi (Aditya Chopra) has always known that my choices are made on the basis of what contribution I’ll get to make. And I’ll only have it that way, in order to derive any satisfaction. So when Sultan was first offered to me, I was like, what would I be doing in this film? But I knew if Adi is offering it to me, so there must be something, and I was convinced of the potential of the role. It’s not about the length of the role, but what the presence of the character does to the film’s story.