Shriya Saran has just wrapped up shooting for Deepa Mehta's What's Cooking? under the banner of BR Films. Shriya says director Deepa Mehta is an institution by herself.Sharing her acting experience about working with Deepa, She said, an actor gets to learn a lot through her style of filmmaking and workshops done regularly with her. We needed to rehearse before each and every scene. We had to enact the scene to perfection. This process made us feel very comfortable with each other. We were even asked to improvise on our roles. When she would not be satisfied, she would give her creative inputs, get the scene right, and then make us shoot. Believe me, it works. After the rehearsals, when we had to give a take, it used to be so smooth.

She considers her What's Cooking? co-star Seema Biswas to be a school of acting. Seema is flawless in front of the camera. I got to learn a lot from her. Working with actors like Rajinikanth or Seema is a learning experience for any actor, says Saran