Vikram was boycotted by friends; Preeti Jhangiani was three-timed by boyfriend!

The lead pair of director SK���s Friday release Mistake share their sorry moments
The booze bottle is theirs, not mine!
Vikram Chatterjee: I must have been in class V or VI at that point of time. I was just learning to ride a cycle and had got hold of a big one from a paratuto dada. The daily cycle rides were like the high points of my days. Naturally, my sister, who is five years younger than me, wanted to tag along every time. So, one day I decided to take her to school on my cycle. Of course, I too had a vested interest. I used to get around Rs 20 every day for transport while taking her to school. If I took her on my cycle, I could save Rs 20, which was huge at that point of time. So I made her sit on the carrier and without telling my parents, took off early in the morning. Unfortunately, on our way, my sisters leg got stuck in between the spokes of the tyre. As a result both of us fell. My sister was badly hurt. And you can imagine the kind of thrashing I got, when we reached home. But what I regret most is the fact that my greed for that extra money resulted in my sister getting badly hurt.
I used to be the good boy in my peer group. In class XI, we participated in an inter-school fest at Nazrul Mancha. Now, my friends wanted to smuggle booze into the auditorium. And they made me the scapegoat. They put the bottles in my bag, because they were so sure nobody would suspect such an innocent-looking kid of any foul play. Unfortunately, I was not so sure myself. So, when the guards started checking, my confidence faltered and I blabbered out ���Amar bag-e ekta botol ache, kintu seta aamar na... oder,��� and pointed my friends out to the guards. Of course we were thrown out. I was disqualified from taking part in the fest and for a month, I was boycotted by my friends too. I tell you, for that one long month, it felt like my life was over.
My biggest mistake till date ��� something that I really regret ��� is the fact that my relationship with my father deteriorated when I was in my teens. I started working very early which gave me a false sense of power. And it was my father who bore the brunt of it. Ego clashes and rebelling against anything he said ��� things like that had a deep effect and before I knew it, our relation was so damaged, I found no way to reverse it. For a period of seven years, I had a strained relation with my dad. Ultimately, it was he, who first broke the ice. But I regret the fact that it was he, who had to take the first step. I regret missing out on seven years of my time with him.
Another big mistake has been my obsession with speed. I remember, I once clocked 12 minutes on my bike from Kasba to Salt Lake, at 5 in the evening. I never used to put on my helmet. My love for thrill led to three bike accidents. The last one had me bedridden for about a month. And even after that, for a long time I walked with a limp. I realized I could have been killed. I learnt my lesson the hard way.
I got three-timed by my BF
Preeti Jhangiani: The first big mistake I remember was trusting my boyfriend blindly. Turned out, he was cheating on me. Not with one, but two other girls. Moreover, the girls were my classmates. Being three-timed by this guy really made me sulk for some time. Also, I remember, during Mohabbatein, I had trained in classical dance for eight months to get my character right. On the day of that particular dance sequence, I was confident. The who���s who of the industry had turned up to see Aditya Chopra���s film being shot. The sequence required me to twirl on my feet again and again. I was like, ���Ye to main aiwwe kar lungi,��� and lo behold, I fell flat on my face in front of the biggest crowd ever. I was so embarrassed. Overconfidence can be fatal and that day, I learnt just that.
My biggest career mistake has been doing this film called Chaahat-Ek Nasha. You won���t believe the amount of hate mail I got after the film released. My image of this docile petite girl did such a somersault overnight, it affected my career in a very negative way. Producers, who had signed me, threw me out of their projects after this film was released!
Produced by NPV Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Mistake releases today.