Hindi naman ako mataba eh. In fact I'm so sexy that it overflows.
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality.
You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.
Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.
Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema
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.
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
