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Q- Did she use a Dictaphone? Vinod Pandey- I think there was a dictaphone there, but she was not using it in my presence, why I say this because when I visited her in her apartment, there were huge heaps of paper. It was a strange kind of situation, she was talking to a friend and yet she seemed like a secretary. She is very organized and brash. But from time to time, her core nature comes out. After some time she asked me for tea, and I was witnessing a different person than the friend (Parveen) that I had. Even you get shattered strangely because the time before that when I had seen her last, a beautiful glamourous fragile girl she was, had now somewhat unkempt, talking brashly. The old Parveen had a very lovely voice, she had a singing twang to her voice, and now it had a kind of Americ