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Preity Zinta is synonymous with disarmed candidness. Her inherent honesty shines through her eyes, when she talks passionately about the things that seem to never change.

"I am frustrated at the thought that Mumbai is getting clogged up again, there will be dirt and sickness again and again half of Mumbai will die. Nobody seems to care. More and more I travel out of Mumbai, and I see the situation there, I feel more cheated.

I feel that even after we pay such high taxes here in Mumbai, our government has always taken us for a ride. Not only today but even thirty years ago and twenty years ago. I recently went to Jaipur and was amazed to see that the streets there are great.

The roads are fantastic. Moreover, there are no encroachments. A friend of mine joked, 'If our vehicle loses control in Jaipur, we have an accident but in Mumbai if we lose control, you are taken in for murder because we manage to kill four people!'

If Jaipur can have clean nice roads, why can’t we? Mumbai really gets a raw deal. Its reached a point of disgust. It's despicable," she says passionately.

Preity has always been the one to speak up vehemently about issues that plagued her and others around her.

"My intensity is the same, but I have become mellower with age, but when I sit quietly people think something is wrong with me!" she says with her trademark throaty guffaw.

Another thing that bothers Preity the most is traffic jams! "I am glad that I don’t drive otherwise I would have strangled some people out of road rage by now," she says.

There are few more causes which Preity thinks need serious concern and so she is actively involved in them.

"Empowerment of women and children will always be of prime concern to me. HIV is another issue that I am seriously worried about. It is like this termite, which is so silent that you never realise when it creeps up and your whole world crumbles down," she says.

- DnaIndia.com