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15 facts that prove Tamannaah Bhatia is (kind of) just like us

The actor on samosas, superstitions, Sunday calls with Mrunal Thakur, and the other little things that make her her

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1. Tamannaah Bhatia, who started working at age 15, still lives with her parents in a Mumbai apartment.

2. Tamannaah is a lightning-fast texter.

3. She had six hours of sleep and no time to rehearse for her iconic ‘Ghafoor’ performance in The Ba***ds of Bollywood. No caffeine was involved.

4. Tamannaah has an irrational fear of lifts, and her coping mechanism often involves surprising people in elevators with an unassuming ‘hello’.

5. She and actor Mrunal Thakur have a standing Sunday check-in call.

6. Her lucky number is 3, as are multiples of 3.

7. One of her go-to spots in Mumbai is Bombay Canteen, especially when she’s craving chaat.

8. Obsession is the latest movie she was obsessed with.

9. Her death-row meal? A samosa.

10. A superstition she believes in is that if someone on a set says “this will happen in one take”, it never happens in one take.

11. She wouldn’t date someone her friends hate, but she would put on her investigator hat to find out what her friends don’t like.

12. She was a nervous flyer growing up.

13. If Tammannaah were a shape, she would be an oval, because it’s rounded in the right places. It’s also, coincidentally, a shape she uses a lot in her jewellery making.

14. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Sadhguru’s app for chants are her top three apps.

15. She does a baby voice while talking to her pet. She’s just like us.

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