Now I know Hindi, and I can read and write Hindi, but the problem is that I can't improvise when I am acting because I think in English, so I have to translate my thinking from English to Hindi, and therefore, I speak slowly.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

'Jia Aur Jia' is like my first proper fun, masti Bollywood film. I have a full-on dance number.

I think the glamour industry, all over the world, does portray a version that is 'Photoshopped' - a picture that is not very realistic.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.

Theatre is my first love; I would not have done it if I didn't love it and certainly not for the money - you really have to believe in it.