Mumbai movie stars change colours faster than chameleons. Take the example of starlet Preeti Jhangiani. She would lose no opportunity to wax eloquent about the Chopras when she was involved in their film, Mohabbatein. "The Chopras are family," she had gushed.

That was then. Today the Sindhi actress is in the how-great-the-South-Indian-film-industry-is mode. Having bagged a few films in the south, Preeti is doing pretty well for herself there. And true to form, she`s full of praise for the southerners. "The South Indian industry is so organized. They taught me so much," she says. Is Preeti suggesting that she learnt nothing from the Chopras?

In the same breath she adds: "The South Indians have treated me like their family which is so rare in this line." Whatever happened to your `family` in Mumbai, Preeti?