Eating Out

Bipasha arrives first at the Great Wall, Leela, in designer glasses, a striped top, astriking denim mini. Dino calls on her mobile and asks that we order dinner while he racesdown from Madh Island. "Ordering his food has become part of my job," muttersBipasha good-humouredly. A huge painting of The Great Wall of China catches our eyes as weseat ourselves. For starters, wok-fried babycorn and prawns are recommended. But beforethat, I thought the best way to get Bipasha talking was to bait her. The one raazyou’ve kept from Dino? "Me? I’m like an open book, it’s Dino who keepssecrets," she says. "But I can pry them out, I am a good sleuth."

When Dino appears, Bipasha stops pecking at her food. He chooses shark fin soup withcrab meat. The one raaz he’s kept from Bipasha? "That I drink a lot of neat rumon the sly." He quickly dovetails that confession conspiratorially: "Do you knowBipasha is getting Hollywood films and has been approached by Night Shyamalan?"Bipasha protests vehemently, "He’s lying, he’s lying..."

I learn that she doesn’t like filmi dancing, he doesn’t like critics who getpersonal. And that both of them believe in the supernatural. "Earlier, theyidentified me as Bipasha only if I was with Dino. After Raaz’s success, theyrecognise me for myself. And that’s a high. I owe 50 per cent of my film career toDino, he’s always encouraged me to act," says Bipasha. The most interesting manshe’s ever met? "Mahesh Bhatt," she says, and Dino seconds her. For now,both of them have set their eyes on their careers, though Dino says they would love to acttogether again, "provided it is in a film as hat ke as Raaz".