Actress Shamita Shetty rubbishes rumours about her so-called spat with starlet Kim Sharma and describes it as "worse than fiction".

Shamita was both shocked and amused when she woke up Tuesday to stories about her fight with Kim at a Mumbai pub.

"This was worse than fiction," she giggled, apparently unaffected by what she called bizarre fabrication.

"I'd have let such an unnatural rumour die a natural death. But I don't want this fictitious fight with Kim to be referred to as being among the most famous cat-fights of Bollywood," Shamita told IANS.

"Please! I'd rather be remembered by my work. And that's why I've been keeping out of the news, to focus on what I'm here for," she said.

"I'm not a cat. I don't indulge in cat-fights. My sister Shilpa and I've been brought up with certain values. We don't believe in creating scenes in public. At first when I read it, I laughed. It was all so weird. And so frivolous."

Shamita admits to being at the pub where the fight with Kim ostensibly happened.

"I was in the private section of the pub with my friends. But there was no conversation with Yuvraj Singh. I knew he and Kim were there. But I didn't run into them at any point in the evening. And there was certainly no finger shown by Kim at me.

"Do you think I'm someone to take such behaviour? I don't know whom she showed her finger to. But it sure as hell wasn't me."

Shamita denies any links with her "Mohabbatein" co-star.

"I don't know Kim that well. Ages ago I did a film 'Mohabbatein' with her. She was my co-actor, period. I don't know her, I've never socialised with her.

"It isn't my nature to speak up against anyone the way she has. I may be irrelevant to her scheme of things. But did she have to speak in that nasty way about me?"

However, she worries the entire incident may spoil her image.

"The whole incident shows me up in a poor light. My friends have been calling up. Luckily, my family is with me. And we've all laughed it off.

"In our industry some actresses love talking about making up, breaking up and having cat-fights. It's so peculiar. No one can show me the finger and get away with it. We don't need to be rocket scientists to see why this story was planted and by whom. I'm preparing to shoot for 'Cash'. I don't need cat-fights to get noticed."