Parineeti Chopra may be only one film old, but she seems to have picked up on a trait that B’town’s best celebrate: Perfectionism. For a scene in Ishaqzaade, Ms Chopra fired 200 rounds of bullets for a scene in which she has to fire a gun. “Parineeti underwent training for a month to get the scene just right,” said a friend of the actress. Pari practised how to hold a gun, fire and reload it, but even then, when the scene was being shot, she kept asking for retakes until she thought it looked just right.

Fortunately, the YRF team wasn’t put off by her quest for the perfect ‘shot’. “It’s good to see the spark of enthusiasm in newcomers like Parineeti,” said an official from YRF, which is producing the film. As for Parineeti, she explained the incident saying, “I have to get it all right.” Yes, because in the industry, the path to the top often has no retakes.