The first thing you notice about actress Sayali Bhagat is her love for food! Last Monday afternoon, the former beauty queen was seen feasting on a plateful of pasta laden with cheese even as she struck a pose at the launch of Threads, a boutique by designers Radhika Singhi and Sayantan Sarkar. t2 also got a few bites...

Are you dating Shoaib Malik?

No! These things spread like wildfire. We are very good friends. We stay in two different countries. We have to meet often if we are to give this any chance.

Are you doing a film with him?

Films with such scripts have come before, too. We have not signed on the dotted line.

You studied management. Rate yourself out of 10 in managing family, career and love…

I would give myself 6 in all of them. But when it comes to balancing, it’s 4. I am not even close to 50 per cent. I expect too much from life.

You seem to be a cricket fan. Is it boys or the game you are in love with?

(Giggles)… I am not that ardent a fan. I follow cricket as much as any layman would. I have been misquoted and misunderstood.

Who is your favourite cricketer?

(Laughs) You know this has landed me in trouble. It’s like Chinese whispers....

What was this business about proposing to Rahul Dravid and Irfan Pathan?

I don’t know… it was an episode of MTV Bakra. I really don’t know where the Irfan (Pathan) story came from. I think I had just said that he had played well in an innings.

Who is your favourite cricketer-Bolly heroine jodi?

Sharmila (Tagore) and (Mansur Ali Khan) Pataudi. They come from such different backgrounds.

Is there any other sportsman you would like to do a movie with?

Cristiano Ronaldo. Now that would be a dream role.

You played a cheated woman in The Train. In real life would you forgive infidelity?

Never. I don’t believe in relationships becoming compromises later. I might even punish him, bring charges against him and malign him.

You have acted with two other beauty queens in a forthcoming film. What do beauty queens discuss when they get together?

We beauty queens are seen as women who are independent and forthcoming. But when it comes to films, it is the star children who take the pie. So, we kind of discuss how we girls keep struggling!

If you were marooned on an island, you would like your partner to be...

Can you please leave me alone with John Abraham? On a beach, please?

Three things people do not know about you

• I can be shy!

• I am more than a very good bathroom singer.

• I love experimenting with haircuts! People who I have given haircuts to have never come back to me, like my mother and my sister. Now, even if they see me cutting a ribbon, they run away.