I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

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.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

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 like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.