"I am not a bar girl"

Stunningly stark in her knee-length black gown, Dia Mirza looked well prepared for her meet with the press at the Reliance Webworld in South Extension.
Armed with her new-found confidence, evolving mainly from the bold role that she plays in Tumsa Nahin Dekha, the film she is promoting in the Capital, she takes on the questions posed to her with an air characteristic of the Bhatt camp.
“I don’t play the role of a bar girl. I play the role of Jia, a very sweet, normal girl in Mumbai, who works in bar for her livelihood. I have worn just two sets of sneakers throughout the film and have a very normal, basic kind of a look.”
No sooner said, she puts forward clarifications. “When I was initially approached for the film, I felt apprehensive. But I was given a very interesting way to look at it. I was told that I one visited the outskirts of Mumbai in the morning, you could hardly differentiate between the girls who were walking out after dancing in the bars and the other girls.”
She seems much more at ease than she says she is with the smooch scene that starts the film. “Emraan walks upto me and smooches me on a crowded street,” she giggles. Modesty sets in soon after. “If any girl is placed in that kind of a situation, she will feel very awkward. But, Emraan was very supportive and promised ‘not to trouble me’, she says. “So it turned out to be a very natural shot.”
Her celebrity status has her in two minds. “I find it great to be a celebrity,” she says as she settles into her sofa for a talk and no sooner than a couple of pointed questions she retorts, “This gets really frustrating at times.”
Though her upcoming film list includes Blackmail with Ajay Devgan, Dil Sachcha Chehra Jhootha with Arjun Rampal and Paresh Rawal, Kahin Bhi Kabhi Bhi, Prateeksha and a couple more, she seems more than confident that this film will be a success.
“Sincerity cannot be outdone. If you work hard and the result is good, everyone is happy.”
Of course, with a former Miss India sincerely doing a seductive number in a bar, everyone should be happy.Mahesh Bhatt was at his outrageous best. “I know people say that my film are tittliating, whats the harm? I want to titillate. I want to titillate an adult audience that wants to be titillated. I will not cover it up by showing sex in a temple or potraying sex in the manner of a mother feeding her child.
“This film is one that your grandmothers will ask you to see. I have tried to rekindle the values in the society, this is not another Murder at all. If you ask me I think Emraan’s performance was the best in this film,” he says.
As for Hashmi, who is still waiting to shoulder a solo hit film, “I have been named a smooch king and I don’t mind that. In Murder, it was a strategy that Mallika Sherawat would be highlighted more than Ashmit and me, it is different here,” he says.
At the end of the day, every actor works for a selfish motive. Naming himself a bold lover, he says he has no problems doing a kissing scene.
Asked which of the actors he would like to kiss, “Just get me anyone.”