For Indian film star Preity Zinta, art doesn't necessarily mirror life. The Bollywood actress says that while her latest movie is about an unmarried couple living together, it's not something she would do herself.

Zinta's latest Hindi movie, Salaam Namaste is about two young Indians living and working in Melbourne, Australia, where they are trying to escape overbearing families back home. The man and woman start out as friends and later move in together.

"I'm very independent. If I believed in live-in relationships, I would have already done it by now," Zinta, 31, reporetedly said in an interview.

"Plus, my live-in partner would have to stay in a suitcase since that's practically what I live out of," she said.

In conservative India, many marriages are still arranged and couples rarely live together before tying the knot. Another recent Hindi movie, Pyar Mein Twist or Twist in Love, portrays two older widows who shock their families when they decide to move in together rather than live with their grown children, as is the custom in India.