I love to live in a fairytale world: Shweta Salve

She gets sad when asked to pick any one favourite movie and book, but immediately perks up when she starts talking about her all-time favourites. TV actress Shweta Salve swears by every scene of Pretty Woman and is most enthralled by the scene where Julia Roberts goes to the opera wearing the pretty red dress. She also goes weak in the knees when she watches Richard Gere climb the fire escape for her.

“I love to live in a fairytale world,” she blushes. So when asked if she likes romantic movies best, she immediately reverts with, “No, I’m not a very mushy person. In fact, I love the Joker in Batman where Heath Ledger has immortalised that character and done complete justice to it. I love his sadistic laugh, his make-up and dialogues. Also, I have grown up watching the K-9 series, so I do like comedy and romantic comedy too.”

Among books, she vouches for The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller which she “read in a day and immediately called for its DVD the next day!”

“It’s an adult romance which is well written and portrayed, even in the movie,” says Shweta. She has grown up reading The Famous Five. Apart from these she also likes the works of Roald Dahl which are deep into suspense and mystery. She’s quite a books person, taking after her “voracious reader” dad.

Archies Comics is her all-time favourite and she is in complete awe of Jughead and wishes she could marry him, “As he is so unpretentious, honest and cool.” So, is she happy that Archie is marrying Veronica? “Yes, because if he would have married Betty, then he would have cheated on her and gone to Veronica,” she says.