She was on a three-film contract with Yash Raj Productions, like any other newcomer launched by the banner. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Badmaash Company and Band Baaja Baraat helped cement her place in the industry. The only film she did outside the banner, till date, is Patiala House.

But the honeymoon with the banner is far from over. Her fourth with the production house, Ladies Vs. Ricky Bahl, will release this December after which she will team up again with Shah Rukh Khan and director Yash Chopra for their next project. “I've been lucky. Each of the films I did with this banner has been different and made people take notice of me. I had made a list of the directors I'd like to work with. But I never thought that I'd get to work with Yashjiso soon in my career. It only gets better since I will also be working with Vishal Bharadwaj in Matru Ki Biwi Ka Mann Dola in 2012. What more can I ask for?” she says with a smile.

When Anushka talks, it's hard to miss her energy levels and her ability to pack in a 100 words in a minute. Ask her about it and she says, “I am not at all ‘bubbly' in real life. In fact, in my first film I had no dialogue for the first half hour. People associate the ‘bubbly' tag with me because of my roles in the last three films.”

In Ladies Vs. Ricky Bahl, she teams up with Band Baaja… actor Ranveer Singh and director Maneesh Sharma. “There is a sense of comfort when you work with people you already know,” she quips. She gets to play the con woman who cons the ‘con man' Ricky Bahl. This con girl, she says, is unlike Bulbul of Badmaash Company. “Badmaash… was a coming-of-age film. Bulbul followed her heart and went with the flow of things. She was a con woman only because she was in love with Shahid Kapur, who was the mastermind. In Ricky Bahl, my character is of a smart woman who can smooth talk her way and sell any product to anyone.”

More than her movies, Anushka is now in the news for her supposed ‘size zero' figure. Anushka rubbishes that and says, “I workout six days a week, which includes a lot of weight training. I have a high metabolic rate, which is further boosted by my high protein diet. I eat every two hours.”