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.
An outsider can see some things much better.
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.
I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.