A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.