On A Date With Amy Jackson: Part 2

Read More">Amy JacksonJ: I’ve just moved in this new house of mine and I love it. So sorry for all this but there are lots of things that need moving. Devansh Patel: That’s fine. I see you’ve done a pretty nice job so far in your new pad in Mumbai. AJ: Yes. I have. I gotRead More

Amy JacksonJ: I've just moved in this new house of mine and I love it. So sorry for all this but there are lots of things that need moving.

Devansh Patel: That's fine. I see you've done a pretty nice job so far in your new pad in Mumbai.

AJ: Yes. I have. I got these bed sheets from Liverpool though. I got a few of the stuff picked up from here. The bed sheet's from NEXT.

DP: Wow! It's looking awesome. Nice colour. But you know what? I miss standing in the queue at 5am for the NEXT sale. I miss London.

AJ: Yea! Me too. I missed the Boxing Day sales last year.

DP: And they don't have RIVER ISLAND here too. That's bad.

AJ: Yea, exactly. I'm wearing RIVER ISLAND shoes. Oh Wow! It's so good to be talking to someone who knows about the U.K

DP: I love Zara too but what else needs to open up here?

AJ: I love H&M.

DP: Aren't you a Debenhams fan?

AJ: A little bit (laughs).

DP: Your parents must be missing you right?

AJ: Yea! I have the best Mom in the world. My Dad's superb as well. They are actually coming over in a couple of weeks in time for the release of Ekk Deewana Tha. Then I've got my big sister who is a 'go-to' girl. So if I ever need any advice on boys, she's around to help me.

DP: Hmmm! That's interesting. So who do I go to if I need any advice on girls? How about your mother?

AJ: Yea yea! She's good. My mother's good to call (laughs)

(I look outside the window again and can't get my eyes off the beautiful Mumbai sea face)

DP: Damn! Do I stare at you or at this scenic beauty?

AJ: I think we both should look outside, stare out.

DP: That doesn't work for me when someone so striking is standing beside me.

AJ: You know what? I went to Taj Lands End yesterday at the Member's Club and you won't believe how beautiful the view looked from there. It was overlooking the sea link. It was gorgeous.

As you’ll have known by now and are familiar with my ‘massage’ rejection offered by Amy Jackson, and the next few minutes spent with her on bed doing yoga (yes, we were on bed and do not make any assumptions please!). In some designer dress that makes her look like a hippie, Read More">Jackson goes no-holds-barredRead More

As you'll have known by now and are familiar with my 'massage' rejection offered by Amy Jackson, and the next few minutes spent with her on bed doing yoga (yes, we were on bed and do not make any assumptions please!). In some designer dress that makes her look like a hippie, Jackson goes no-holds-barred on the bed posing for crazy pictures and one has that sense she isn't calibrating her career in Indian cinema, she's here to stay for a long time and enjoying her new found status. I glance at her as she takes her sandals off and hops on the bed. In a second she chants 'Om Om Om' and then wears the men's sunglasses and offers me an offer (that this time) I couldn't refuse, "Can you teach me how to cook food? I want to learn." My hormones were dancing inside me. Hell yea!!! "Hell yea Amy. I will teach you how to cook," I answer. Suddenly I felt like I'd developed an eloquent British accent. Everything about Amy is of a surprising proportion - her house, her talks, her mannerisms, her humour and her generosity. For a minute I forgot I was talking to the most talked about face on Page 3 and the most featured face on the glossy magazines. For me, she was simply Amy - Amy I knew from my UK days? Amy I made friends with on social networking sites? Or the Amy I've always wanted to meet? She's got all the qualities of your best friend - all smiley, gee-whiz confidence, full of hugs and exclamation points. That was it! She kept talking, smiling and hugging like my best friend... and I simply refused to grow up.

Part 2 of the exclusive On a Date with Amy Jackson continues...

Read More">DP: Do you send pictures back home for them to see what their Amy is up to? AJ: (laughs) Yea I do. I talk on Skype with my friends and my Mom has seen the pictures. I miss them all. They like the cushions from the living room. DP: I do like them. You areRead More

DP: Do you send pictures back home for them to see what their Amy is up to?

AJ: (laughs) Yea I do. I talk on Skype with my friends and my Mom has seen the pictures. I miss them all. They like the cushions from the living room.

DP: I do like them. You are the lavender girl huh? By the way, whose choice of colours is it?

AJ: It's mine.

DP: I think what I like about your house is that it's not stocked up with lots of things. It's stylish, elegant and yet simple and subtle.

AJ: Thank you. I try to make the most of it. It's just enough.

DP: Your friends must be so envy of you?

AJ: Nooooo! I've got the best of friends. When you reach at some point in your life, you realise who your true friends are, isn't it? I'm close to my girl gang and I'm very lucky to have them. We are five to six of us like a close knitted family.

DP: Very much like the Spice Girls.

AJ: Yea! They are going to be here soon and I will celebrate my birthday with them again (laughs).

DP: Wow! Date, Birthday.....where do we go next? I don't mind a long walk with you near the beach. Hand in hand. What say?

AJ: I think it's perfect. Let's do it but not today. I have to go out with Prateik to promote my movie (laughs). Actually we've done a lot of walks together to promote our movie too, can you believe it? We've done Carter Road and now we are going to Juhu Beach. It's exciting. Bandstand is remaining too. I also like to sit near a coffee shop that's near my house, Cafe Coffee Day. It's so relaxing there.

DP: Yes, facing the sea, it's awesome. But what makes Mumbai's sea face so fascinating are those couples sitting on the rocks near the sea. It's a sight worth a watch!

AJ: I can see some now

(Amy points at a couple that we can see clearly from her window)

AJ: Whenever I am lonely I come near my window and look out and all I can see are those sweet couples. I get to see them all the time (laughs).

DP: You definitely can't see this site in the U.K. near the beach, can you?

AJ: No you can't. That's so true. Everybody out there wants fancy things but no one wants simple pleasures out of life. I love it here ever since I've moved to Mumbai.

DP: You guys love the sun, don't you? That scorching heat, that natural tan.

AJ: Yesssss! I love it. I love getting tanned. There's no artificial tan. I lied down in the grass a while back and got baked (laughs).

DP: I’d love to click some crazy pictures with you someday. AJ: Sure, Read More">Let’s do it now. Do you want one while I give you massage? (I literally choked when Amy said that…and then there was silence for a few seconds. I did feel embarrassed for a minute and wondered where to continue from) (IRead More

DP: I'd love to click some crazy pictures with you someday.

AJ: Sure, Let's do it now. Do you want one while I give you massage?

(I literally choked when Amy said that...and then there was silence for a few seconds. I did feel embarrassed for a minute and wondered where to continue from)

(I look back and spot some picture frames behind me)

DP: Listen, I'm sitting on your bed, hope you don't mind.

AJ: No I don't. Why should I?

DP: That's nice. Let's get clicked then!

AJ: Come on then!

DP: By the way, do you do Yoga?

AJ: Yes I do, sometimes. I've just started recently. But are we going to do 'Om'?

DP: Whatever you wish.

(We sit cross legged and chant 'Om'. Weird isn't it? Considering it's a 'date')

AJ: Ommmm! Ommmmmmm! Ommmmmmmmm! Come on, join me. And close your eyes and stop looking at me (laughs).

DP: Yes, sorry!

(Amy shuts her eyes and I look at her again)

AJ: Let's do a serious face picture.

DP: No. I'd say a funny face.

AJ: Ok. Sounds good! But I think you are lost. Come on Devansh! You can do better.

DP: I know I know. It's just Amy Jackson, that's it. It's you. My mind ceases to think the more I look at you.

AJ: (laughs)

DP: I think we should make an English movie with you in Mumbai. How about that?

AJ: That would be so nice. I'd love that. I'll play myself.

DP: But we will shoot the romantic song in Liverpool.

AJ: Done. Hey, do you want some chocolates?

DP: I'll have them later for sure. I never forget chocolates, don't you worry.

AJ: Hey listen, do you cook?

DP: Yes I do.

(Now that's the first time a lady has asked me about cooking. Normally it's the other way around. I always blow my own trumpet. You know how it works, come on!)

DP: I invite a lot of celebrity friends over to my pad for some Indian and Italian delicacies over wine. You should come down sometime.

AJ: I'll come in. Nice. Awesome. Fab. Yea! Can you teach me? I am a dreadful cook. I can only cook peanut butter on toast.

DP: Try chopped bananas on it someday.

AJ: See, that's what I'm talking about. I will try it.

DP: Cooking, what next? You learning Hindi?

AJ: I am a bit. Have started.

DP: So come on, what swear words have you learnt so far?

AJ: C***************** beeeeeeeeeeep

DP: That's f****** nice!

AJ: Welcome to Mumbai darling!

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