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producers to see me in another light, “This decade is about thinks in English; I think in Hindi...
to listen, and understand, and give me She’s outspoken... I’m a diplomat. To
different work. pushing my limits be honest, we’ve never sat down and
and changing with thought about why things have worked.
Was that difficult to do? I think we just let each other be who we
It was a huge struggle to change my every film. Earlier, I’d are.
image. Very few people trusted that I experiment every 3 or
could do more. But I didn’t want to do 4 years. Now I want to You are mostly seen in patriotic hero
what I was doing any more because I was mode, We have always seen variations
so bored of getting up in the morning, do something entirely in you in sort of playing poster boys for
going for shoots and being told: Do a different with each patriotism films like Airlift, Gold, Pad-
flying kick, It became very monotonous. man and many more, Have you ever
The first 10 years of my career, I wasn’t film” thought to join politics and convey your
acting at all; I was running a martial social messages through it?
arts school on screen. I caught a lucky No! politics is not my agenda at all
break with Priyadarshan’s Hera Pheri, are being written, the music, the pay because, I feel that what I’m doing
and then things began to change. This cheques for actors. Earlier, things through films, I’ll be never able to do
decade is about pushing my limits and changed very slowly. Trends continued it with politics. The power of cinema
changing with every film. Earlier, I’d for 5 or 7 years; now the rate of change is unbelievable, you can do so many
experiment every 3 or 4 years. Now I is very fast. things. like I was doing Airlift, nobody
want to do something entirely different was aware of it but, the moment I started
with each film. Twinkle and you come across as doing publicity through my films and
completely different people. What’s everybody came to know about it. So it is
Do you think Bollywood has changed the trick to making things work? the power of cinema which is changing
for the better, or for worse? We’re complete opposites. I don’t people’s mentality and thoughts. n
For the better: The kind of scripts that read; she’s very well-reader. She

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