Subhash K Jha in this special feature reflects on Preity Sinta’s career and shares a throwback conversation with the actress when they discussed her role in the hit film Dil Chahta Hai.

At one point of time, Preity Zinta and I used to be friends, so close that she once told me if she had ten guests at her wedding, I would be one of them. We’ve met several times over the years, once famously for lunch at a high-end Mumbai restaurant with Karan Johar, where heads turned towards us as Preity, Karan, and I entered.

The last time I met her was when she came home for lunch in Patna. We haven’t been much in touch since then, after her marriage and babies. But I have only good wishes for this Zinta Dil actress.

Among the work she did, Preity was understandably the proudest of Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai.