India, May 18 -- Rakul Preet Singh is fiddling with her ring and it drops off while she is mid-sentence. She picks it up promptly, puts it back on her finger and goes on to say, "I don't wear accessories. These rings, my stylist gave them to me." She lifts her carefully coiffured hair to reveal her ears. "I don't even wear earrings," she says and laughs. Given that she is in a business where dressing up to the nines is the norm, this statement sums up how candid the 29-year-old actor can be in front of the media.

In the city to promote her newest release De De Pyaar De, which also stars Ajay Devgn and Tabu, Rakul comes across as a breath of fresh air. While she might pause and ponder to answer a question, none of them come across as rehe...