has straddled both kinds of cinema massy entertainers and contentdriven ones are you happy with the way things function now at the end of the day if the audience doesnt enjoy your experiments with cinema its not going to help the good part is that the audience is open to the variety in content now gritty films like badla can coexist with massy ones and theyre all doing well even offbeat subjects are doing decent business so its a plus if you can act ive worked in about 30 films in 1314 years which i feel is a good number initially i was like akshay kumar doing four films a year then i felt that maybe i need to slow down today i dont feel like i have missed out on anything sometimes things have not worked out for some unusual reasons but i have no regrets im sure something better is around the corner at the moment apart from pagalpanti theres only the big bull in your kitty do you feel that being so selective is a good idea especially when theres a burst of new ideas new faces and filmmakers with fresh conceptsi was always conscious about what i chose and i still am after barfi 2012 i received many offers to play a bengali girl but why would i do it again with me its always about instinct even if something sounds great on paper i am fine with being more selective about what i do yes there are a lot of newcomers but i dont feel the need to rush at the end of the day a film is for posterity you have to be sure about it because it cant be erased so instead of rushing in and choosing 20 films id rather do fewer films and stay relevant besides why bombard the audience with too much of you a little mystery is always good clearly in your 15yearcareer youve not followed industry norms did that make things toughim a wild child a rebel who has never stuck to norms ive made my own rules and lived by them but of course it comes at a price once during the initial days of my career i asked a choreographer why people thought i am snooty and difficult is it because i dont agree with everyone all the time or because i speak my mind she told me just be yourself and everyone will get used to it that has stayed with me its easy to get caught up with things and lose yourself losing sanity is a far bigger price than losing a career though i am myself i dont think i am hated for it i do everything keeping in mind that at the end of the day i need to sleep with my conscience clear on the personal front speculations about your breakup with andrew kneebone surfaced when you unfollowed each other on social media followed by a couple of