Your filmmakers call you professional and your co-stars say you are extremely hard working, are you?
I think I am and I’m happy they notice and appreciate my sincerity. My producers say I’m lucky because my average of box-office hits is high. There are no short cuts to success and the only way to do it is to give your best.
Critics say you do the same type of roles?
I have never fathomed why they say that, is it because I only do mainstream cinema but there is a difference between Partner and Rajneeti and Ajab Prem Ki Gatha and Phantom I have worked in different genres and with directors of different sensibility. David Dhawan’s Partner was more like a picnic because Salman, Govinda, and David were cracking up all the time and I was the odd one there. I was the odd one in Rajneeti as well and I was surprised that Prakash Jha wanted me in the film.
To be continued