Neetu: The new officer on duty?

Sometimes there’s a thin line between reel and real roles.

Recently, actress Neetu Chandra almost crossed that line. She’s playing a cop in One Two Three and was shooting in Pondicherry.

While travelling back to her hotel dressed as a cop, Neetu came across real cops cordoning off a section of the road. But when Neetu reached the barricade, the men saluted her and made way for her vehicle mistaking her for an officer on duty. The rest of the crew waited at the check-post.

Now that’s what we call getting into the skin of the character!

Did the Deol connection help Neetu?

Neetu Chandra’s on-screen romance with Akki and Johnny boy in Garam Masala didn’t register with the audiences. Thankfully, with Madhur Bhandarkar’s Traffic Signal, the gal got the green signal and many more offers followed.

Much to her amazement, her close association with Sunny and Bobby Deol has helped her move up the ladder. She’s bagged a role in One Two Three where she plays a Jat cop. “I had a lot of Jat friends in college, thanks to my conversations with them, I picked up their accent. This role required the cop to use such an accent and I bagged it,” she says. Well, the Deols will surely give you a warm welcome, Neetu!