Female
power
is
in.
Deepika
Padukone
is
busy
matching
Akshay
Kumar's
kicks
and
somersaults
in
Bangkok
for
Nikhil
Advani's
Chandni
Chowk
To
China.
Nearer
home
in
Hyderabad,
Jiah
Khan
matched
stunt
strides
with
Aamir
Khan.
Though
thankfully,
she
hasn't
had
any
mishaps
yet.
Jiah's
lithe
stunts
in
Murugadoss'
Ghajini
are
every
bit
as
heart-in-the-mouth
as
Aamir
Khan's.
The
only
reason
Jiah's
action
scenes
aren't
being
talked-about
are
because
she
isn't
talking
about
it.
"I
can't!
I'm
not
allowed
to," she
quakes
with
contractual
terror.
"But
yes,
I've
done
a
lot
of
action
scenes
in
Ghajini.
They've
been
extremely
unnerving."
The
action
sequences
require
Jiah
to
match
Aamir
kick
for
kick.
"And
they
are
one
reason
I
had
to
lose
so
weight,"
she
admits,
having
returned
from
Hyderabad
where
the
Ghajini
shooting
was
wrapped
up
earlier
this
week.
"The
schedules
don't
suffer
because
of
Aamir's
accident
at
all.
We
resume
in
the
middle
of
May
as
per
schedule."
On
Tuesday
Jiah
started
shooting
in
Mumbai
for
Ken
Ghosh's
film
with
Shahid
Kapoor.
"That's
the
film
I'm
not
supposed
to
do,"
she
jokes.
"It's
so
cheap
to
send
compromising
messages
in
someone
else's
name,"
Jiah
suggests
that
the
sms
messages
that
embarrassed
Shahid
Kapoor
and
almost
had
her
out
of
the
project
were
sent
off
by
someone
else
in
her
name.
"I've
never
sent
sms
to
people
in
the
industry
beyond
work.
I'm
so
new
to
all
this
manipulation
scheming
and
negativity.
I'm
just
so
happy
to
be
doing
two
films
like
Ghajini
and
Ken
Ghosh's
film
where
I've
completely
different
roles."
Story first published: Friday, May 9, 2008, 14:35 [IST]