Are you doing right by avoiding the media?
See, there is curiosity about me but there is no hype, because I don’t hard-sell myself, because I don’t boast of my achievements to film magazines. I don’t believe in media publicity. I don’t succumb to media pressures because my dream is on another level. I want to be the country’s most respected actor and the race is not over yet!
Even though your competitors have moved ahead?
They did so because they had the talent. I don’t grudge them; for myself, I can say that out of the fifteen films I have done so far, I am proud to lend my name to seven films and I’m not sure how many actors can be as fortunate.
So, would you say you are happy?
Well… not entirely but I’m fairly happy.
Why not entirely?
Because I would like to work even lesser than I do now; as of now I’m working every single day of the year except Sundays. I want to reduce the assignments to just one film in a year.
What other things make you happy?
Umm… Let me think, success makes me happy… Good things happening to my family, to people I care for, make me happy… People who are sensitive make me happy…Kindness makes me happy.
And what makes you unhappy?
When things go wrong in my life… Suffering, my own, and of those around me makes me unhappy.
(concluded)