am still the same naadan girl inside the image that people have of me is still that of a pattupaavada wearing girl running through the paddy fields wearing sandal paste on her forehead and tulsi leaves on her hair the change in me happened gradually i prefer to keep myself updated who will not love to go for a change but i have made sure that i wear only what suits me instead of blindly following fashion trendsit has been long since we saw you on screen are you being selective of course i am being highly selective i am not bothered about the gap between the releases of my movies if i start doing every other film that comes my way my 25 years efforts in the industry would go waste also these days good stories are hard to come by earlier i was spoilt for choice and all the scripts were worth doing i had to say no to some really good movies at that point of time but now most of those who narrate the scripts to me are taking bits from other languages and just weaving them together today i would consider myself very lucky if i am able to take back home a character after watching a moviehave you ever regretted leaving the industry at the pinnacle of your career to get married it wasnt easy for me to leave the movie industry as i told you cinema is always a part of me but it was never my aim so when i decided to marry i knew i am not going to come back ever to this field i guess nobody would ever understand how tough it was for me to leave the limelight and become a housewife not even my parents but since i had always dreamt of becoming a homemaker who would stay at home happily taking care of her husband and kids i prepared myself mentally it was painful for me to delete cinema from my heart which is like a part of my body but even when i returned i never wanted to do films my parents were fine with my decision to not join films again but what my mother told me really made me think she said you are not a 50yearold lady to stay at home doing nothing you are in your 20s and you have a life ahead if you want to try a different profession you need education which you didnt get time to pursue so you think about it and i kept thinking that was when director joshiy sir called me up and i decided to come back and now whatever roles i get i consider them a bonuswill we see you complete 50 years in the industry i am aware that the stories that are trending now are of teenagers i know my age i cannot ever do a teenagers role but i can always be part of films that suit me so