Deepika’s tongue-twisting word game

Here comes François Le French, my Michelin-starred cook with my chamomile tea. Strange, he’s spouting Urdu

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. Huh? Apparently on a recent promotional outing for her upcoming film, Aarakshan, Deepika Padukone was asked to pronounce a tongue twister in chaste Hindi by her director, Prakash Jha. Deepi went positively dippy trying to wrap her tongue around it. As she stuttered and stammered, co-star Prateik burst into laughter, no doubt, prompting angry glares from our heroine. Despite Jha’s encouragement, she abandoned her attempts.

First Published: Jul 23, 2011 18:00 IST