it was a reelmeetsreal moment for actress parineeti chopra and badminton champ and former world no 1 saina nehwal recently the actress visited the nehwal residence in hyderabad usha and harvir singh nehwal sainas parents welcomed their reel daughter into their home and treated her to some desi ghee ke aloo parathe before the girls could start chatting about the film based on sainas life and sporting journey thats being backed by tseries in an exclusive interaction with bombay times parineeti and saina talk about how tough the sport is the challenges of portraying it on screen and how similar the two of them are in reality excerptsthe biopic rolled out afresh a fortnight before diwali after a long journey and a change of actors in fact shraddha kapoor who had briefly shot for the film had told bt that parineeti was the first choice for the role and it was pure destiny that eventually she is the one headlining itparineeti shes right har film ki apni kismat hoti hai i remember being over the moon after reading just five pages of the script i met the director amole gupte i wanted to do it but things didnt materialise then shraddha is a dear friend and we often discussed how she was doing my film its sheer luck that it came back to me the meaning of my name parineeti is destiny today i want to leave the past behind because i dont want it to distract me i am treating this as a brandnew film that ive just started shooting what makes the road difficult is that saina is still in action while the biopic is being made theres no scope for any kind of creative liberty here i know that comparisons will be drawn and i want to have as little to worry about that as possible digging up the past only convolutes the mind this is by far one of my most difficult films saina you must be aware that parineeti as a part of her prep for the biopic continued to practice badminton with eshan naqvi her coach and coactor even while shooting for another film the girl on the train a subject like this needs far more investment emotionally and physically for an actor as compared to many other projects would you agree parineetiparineeti i didnt want to miss a 45day spell of training i am not a sportsperson so if am portraying one on screen i have to be convincing thats not an easy task after meeting her im nervous about how she will assess everything i hope the effort makes her happy saina playing a sportsperson on screen when you are not one must be very challenging i know how tough it must be for her to imitate my style on the court i just wanted to tell her that im there with her to motivate her and guide her wherever she needs me this sport can be tough for someone who doesnt