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Sameera Reddy on not being in Gupta’s new productions and stepping into Priyanka’s shoes Sameera Reddy Sameera Reddy is playing what she calls a lengthy cameo in this week’s Fool N Final, but there’s no sign of her in the promos. “I did it only for director Ahmed Khan who’s a dear friend. When he asked me to help him out, it was meant to be just a song and some dialogues. This finally stretched into quite a lengthy part.” Another instance of  Sameera Reddy being taken for a ride? “Look,” she defends herself. “There are no leads and supporting roles any more. I saw Cheeni Kum as an example of how far our cinema has come. Look at Tabu standing tall. What a journey she has made in her career! I’d like my career to be like hers or Smita Patil’s. That’s why I’m working with directors as diverse as Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Ahmed Khan. I’ve done a 12-minute film on AIDS for Mira Nair called Migration, produced by the Bill Gates Foundation. My greatest reward was when Vishal Bhardwaj saw it and congratulated me.” Mira’s Migration is the second film after Musafir where Sameera replaced Priyanka Chopra. And she’s no longer being featured in any of Sanjay Gupta’s vast  production plans. What went wrong between them? Has it ended? “What relationship?” she counters, “We never had anything to do with each other beyond a friendship. I’ll always be grateful to him and his company for giving me Musafir. But for their new projects, there has to be something that suits me, na?”