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In 2012 Anurag Basu directed the period romantic comedy Barfi starring Ranbir Kapoor Priyanka Chopra and Ileana DCruz. Anurag ensured the film brought a whiff of fresh air to Indian cinema 13 years ago. The love story was unique and achieved cult status for its refreshing narrative soulful soundtrack standout performances and overall feel-good vibe. The film sensitively portrayed physically and neurologically disabled characters: Ranbir played a deaf-mute while Priyanka portrayed a girl with autism. The second lead in the film Ileana DCruz plays the role of Shruti Ghosh Sengupta a beautiful educated young woman who falls in love with Barfi. However her mother dissuades her from pursuing the relationship believing that Barfi due to his disabilities and lack of financial stability would not be able to take care of her. In a recent interview Ileana DCruz recalled her time working with Anurag Basu. She said the movie is special to her but also revealed that at one point she wanted to quit the film midway. Ileana reminisced and told NDTV that filmmaker Anurag Basu once shouted at her without any reason which deeply offended her. DCruz told One morning I just walked in super happy in the morning on set and I was like hey hows it going? And he was in a very bad mood. Something ticked him off and he lashed out on me and I got really offended. So I said Dada listen if you think Im not right for this role and if youre not happy with the work Ive done Ill leave. Im not going to sue you. I will leave. I love the story so much and it wont make me happy to be in a film like this if you dont think Im right for the part. He went one way I went the other way crying and called the producer. And I said no Im leaving. She further added “I spoke to Vidyas husband Siddharth Roy Kapur and he said hes on his way just do the scenes. So I go get ready have my makeup on And Dada comes walking back in and hes the only one who used to call me Ilu. I dont allow anybody call me Ilu. And he just simply said that I walked in at a bad time and not to take him seriously. We laughed it off and hugged it out.