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Juhi Chawla has been one of the most successful actresses ever to grace the Indian celluloid. The actress catapulted to super stardom after QSQT in 1989 opposite Aamir Khan. Now she is happy doing Indie Movies and has taken a break from commercial cinema after motherhood. Here are some excerpts from a recent interview which is on the Glam Sham website:

On Onir:
“We've had MY BROTHER NIKHIL earlier which of course was an       amazing project; we had a blast shooting it. Now Onir wanted me to do a role in his next film. I read the script and liked the character immediately. Luckily, Sanjay was also casted in this film with whom I have worked earlier. So, it's a kind of coincidence that we three are working again.”

On Her Role In Bas Ek Pal:
“I am playing Ira malhotra who is a former Miss , again it's a co-incidence, she is wife of a businessman named Steve which is played by Rehaan engineer. She married this guy going against her family's wish. But later their relationship went into the ruins so she spends most of her time working for an old age home.  I liked the role because it was much of my age, it wasn't difficult for me get into the skin of character. It was a little intense character too because Ira was going through a phase in which things were not working for her, her relationship fell apart and her husband kept threatening her if she mentioned going out.”

On Bas Ek Pal:
“Yes, you can put it that way. It is an emotional story of five people bound by an incident that changes their lives concurrently. It's story, which portrays every emotion through which any person goes whether it is anger, jealousy, trauma, love, need, insecurity. Onir has beautifully woven all the emotions and portrayed it through five characters. All the characters are very modern contemporary, from the upper middle class background. Their lives revolve around a nightclub, which later turns their lives perplexingly. “