It
pays
to
be
the
director's
wife,
especially
if
you
happen
to
be
as
spirited
as
Pakhi
Tyrewala,
who
makes
her
debut
as
a
leading
lady
in
Abbas
Tyrewala's
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi.
Pakhi's
character
enters
the
narrative
after
more
than
30
minutes
of
playing
time.
The
debutante
actress
felt
that
was
way
too
long
to
wait
to
be
seen.
She
has
now
convinced
her
director-husband
to
let
the
audience
see
her
in
a
song
sequence
that
comes
much
before
her
character
was
supposed
to
enter
the
plot.
Candid
and
unfussy,
Pakhi
explains,
"It
isn't
as
if
a
new
song
had
been
added
to
the
narrative
for
my
sake.
The
song
was
there
all
along.
It
was
just
repositioned
in
the
narrative
to
come
in
earlier
than
scheduled."
Pakhi
is
aware
she's
getting
a
dream
launch
in
her
husband's
film,
though
not
a
conventional
launch.
Says
Pakhi,
"I
don't
enter
the
film
in
slow
motion.
Nor
do
I
get
into
a
costume
change
in
every
frame.
I
play
a
normal
girl.
And
yes
I
am
not
the
central
character
in
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi.
John
Abraham's
character
is
far
more
central
to
the
plot.
I
should
know.
I
wrote
the
script."
Not
that
Pakhi
sees
herself
in
every
film
she
writes.
Priyanka
Chopra,
an
actress
Pakhi
admires,
would
be
ideal
in
the
next
script.
"I
am
not
here
to
write
films
only
for
myself.
After
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi,
I'd
be
hopefully
noticed
by
other
scriptwriters
and
directors
and
be
cast
in
their
films."
Pakhi
is
very
clear
about
making
a
career
in
acting.
"I'm
here
to
stay.
At
least
that's
the
intention.
I'm
aware
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi
is
not
the
kind
of
launch
that
would
make
audiences
go
nuts
about
me.
There
aren't
too
many
stand-alone
shots
for
me.
During
a
large
part
of
the
narrative
I
am
part
of
an
ensemble."
Folklore
has
it
that
Pakhi
wrote
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi
only
so
she
could
share
screen
space
with
her
college
crush
John
Abraham.
The
spunky
aspirant
doesn't
deny
she
had
a
thing
about
John.
"When
I
met
him
for
the
first
time
we
exchanged
pleasantries
and
then
I
walked
straight
into
a
French
window.
Luckily
nothing
got
broken.
But
my
crush
did
get
crushed."
There
are
intimate
moments
between
John
and
Pakhi.
And
it
must
have
been
awkward
to
be
directed
in
them
by
her
husband.
Says
Pakhi,
"At
the
end
of
the
day
we
were
all
professionals.
And
really,
how
much
passion
can
you
squeeze
out
of
a
love
scene
when
you're
shooting
in
restricted
areas
of
London
where
you
have
exactly
25
seconds
before
the
director,
who
happens
to
be
your
husband,
calls
cut
before
we
run
off
to
avoid
traffic?"
Oh,
and
Pakhi
is
Size
00P,
which
in
fashion
parlance
is
a
lot
thinner
than
Size
0.
"It
comes
from
being
petite
in
frame
and
hitting
the
gym
really
hard
to
stay
paper-thin," says
Pakhi
who
stays
in
a
large
family
that
takes
care
of
her
home
while
she
pursues
her
acting
aspirations.
Abbas
and
Pakhi
are
to
move
into
their
new
home
soon.
"That
got
sinfully
delayed
because
of
Jhootha
Hi
Sahi.
The
film
has
taken
three
years
of
our
life.
Maybe
now
we
can
go
back
to
doing
what
normal
couples
do,"
ends
Pakhi.
Story first published: Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:44 [IST]