What makes you anxious? “Not shooting for sure, on the contrary I’m happiest when I’m working but the reactions of the audience – good or bad does add to anxiety. For instance, the viewers were angry with my character Lakshmi in Road. The youngsters loved her she-devil attitude but not the senior audience. Same with Rewa in Naach. I needed to create my own vocabulary of choreography because my character is used as a metaphor.” Were there self-doubts about aping Madhuri Dixit? “See, it was arole. I have grown up watching all her films Abodh to Khalnayak and never having met her was an advantage. The distance brought the awe and the dances were not a problem because Chutki in Main Madhuri Banna Chahti Hoon isn’t in competition with the star, she aspires to be her”.

All your films project you as a seductress. Does a branding like this come with a price? “The seduction is a visual packaging of show business and we actors dress according to characters. In the final analysis, you are what you think, not what you look. I don’t think of myself as a seductress. An image is made up of several factors and appearance and attitude are part of that.  Everything associated with show business is temporary”.