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What are other recent films whose success has surprised you?

Salaam Namaste is one. It has a story that many might have considered irrelevant in our society -- two people living together and having a child out of wedlock. It is wonderful and very encouraging for the film industry that audiences are willing to patronise these films. With that encouragement, an actor gets the opportunity to perform different roles.

You are playing a PR man in Kabhi Alvida, an Indian who has grown up in New York. Do you have an accent in the film, and did you model the role after anyone in the public relations business?

Not at all. I had excellent guidance from Karan Johar. This is a drama of family dynamics and it has a powerful story. It was more important to me to be truthful to this character than worry about such things about accent. I also have discovered over the years that many well placed Indians here or in Britain are more Indian in their hearts than many of us.

Have you had that opportunity to do three or four movies in a row with some directors?

I have not been around that long to do that many movies. But I have been repeated by many directors. I'm just about to start my third film with J P Dutta. Ramu (Ram Gopal Varma) has cast me in two films. And this (Bluffmaster) is my second film with Rohan.

Photograph: Jewella C Miranda

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