But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

An outsider can see some things much better.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.