It’s my cheque, insists Soha Ali Khan

Soha Ali Khan says that if she goes on a date, she will always offer to pay for the dinner when the bill is served at the table. May be it’s because of her UK background or perhaps as she describes it —“comes from an extreme sense of independence” that has been ingrained in her right from the beginning.

“If I go on a date, I will always ask if I can pay for the meal. I don’t think that it’s the prerogative of the guy to foot the bill of the woman? Why is that? Isn’t the woman independent enough to share her own costs? Of course, it feels nice when a guy wants to pamper her woman but I will always offer to pay first. In fact, I have ended up paying for many guys,” laughs Khan.

The actor says that she has never asked for money from her parents after she started working. She was so fiercely independent that she never batted an eye-lid before cooping up in rented accommodations and travelling economy class (no, it’s not normal for somebody like her because she belongs to the royal Pataudi family) because she couldn’t afford it.

“It didn’t matter. There was a time when I was working with a bank and I couldn’t afford business class but even then I never borrowed money from my family or Saifu (her brother Saif Ali Khan). I have always believed in being happy with whatever I have,” says Soha.

May be that is the reason why Khan says that she never tried staying with her brother Saif who’s apartment was just a stone’s throw away in Khar. “I am extremely close to my brother and I often go over to his pad but that doesn’t mean that I am not possessive about my own place. I am glad that I have an apartment of my own. I always listen to myself first and I don’t like being ordered around. That way I and my brother are made of the same stuff,” adds Khan.