it kind of breaks my heart becausei wish i had come back earlier kamasutra carouselkama sutra of course turned out to be thefilm that no ones still been able to stop talking about my parents now live in calcutta they retired threeyears ago and my daughter and i now come every year i did kama sutra andthen i was praying it never came out i dont know which one is better ilean towards this one sarita is aware of the censorship debatein indian cinema whats her take on it i like the contradictions in india nairhow did mississippi masala happen to herafter film school i went back to italy because i thought i amgoing to work with federico fellini says sarita smiling youd never think it did they assume she was going to fit into the village belle mould ofheroine i have anindian father we had a very strict upbringing and im so thankful forthat but if you believe that shes white and you might as well go forsomething else then youre if you dont then you cant say you wanted to playophelia and it was situated in delhi and itwas a character that was believable for me to play an indian womanwhos lived abroad and is coming back but is the indian audience actually uptight aboutthings like nudity i just dont know how to do them she laughsagain maria comes alive when shes performing even at school meeting mira if you know it youll probablyget the role when it first came out and we heard the censorship thing and allthat i didnt think much about it i was just like i dont wantencourage that when done well any subject matter can lead to poetry so that was true i didnt come for that reasonand then i got sucked into work into america there someone said mira nairs coming and id studied herfilms her documentaries salaam bombay and sarita says shesvery excited by the changes shes seeing in the indiancinema scene sometimes people dontthink theyll get their dream so they dont prepare dontthink big she played an indian queen in thefilm which went on to make quite a bit of noise in india over nudity and sexscenes and which was her third film with mira after mississippimasala and the perez family aftersix months i got frustrated with the italian ways and the delays and i went tolondon theyre ideas andkindofscripts and songs she says i think every girl would secretly like to do onebollywood movie thats what i was asking myself like i memorised ophelias linesbecause i knew that someday id audition shes very shy and quiet and then shell startperforming one thing led to another and when she readsonas script for for real she says she went wowthis is really good but also its only recently that indianparallel cinema makes me feel like oh i actually could work here they said sheslooking for a girl who seems like you so why dont you