Q+A HER PIECE OF THE ACTION

Buoyed by the critical success of her film choices, actress PARINEETI CHOPRA now wants to reinvent herself with every release. Code Name: Tiranga, her latest, sees her try her hand at action

- Suhani Singh

Q. This is your first action film. They say comedy is tough to do.

Is action tougher? Comedy is still harder to do. It is all about the timing, and that is something you inherently need to have. I don't think anybody thought I could be an action figure. It is a big professional leap. The action in Code Name is largely hand combat, which you can't fake. Most of the men I am fighting are physically much stronger than I am, so imagine getting the punches, the kicks and the flips right! We would not shoot the sequences until I knew them with my eyes closed.