to unlearn a lot to learn something newi think the experience of life teaches you a lot if you learn from your mistakes thats the best lesson you can teach yourself and as an actor i never went to any institute or any drama school i did a crash course of three months with roshan taneja sir i knew that i wanted to be an actor luckily in those days there werent too many people vying for the stardom as there are today but slowly after 7 or 10 years things became more competitive when i was working it was the inbetween stage and then things suddenly changed i think i couldnt catch up with that pace thats where i went wrong somewhere but the experiences of life teach you so much that as an actor you grow and you start understanding yourself more you mature into a person whos very different from when you were younger i think its more about understanding yourself that helps you perform betterdo the sensibilities of your sons aryaman and dharam influence your own creative choices nowi dont like my creativity to be influenced by anyone you have to have your own convictions if you dont trust your own conviction then you will never be able to brave it out there and do what you really believe in when i sign something i tell my sons that im really excited about this project after ive signed it after ive heard the story i give them a bad narration of it because i cant narrate properly their reaction usually is okay it sounds nice papa thats because theyve seen that their papa is trying to do different kinds of roles they realise that their father is not trying to just be the main lead hes trying to do characters which are out of his comfort zone and challenging for him they know all that when my sons aryaman and dharam saw love hostel they loved it because they love that kind of cinema ive never seen them so excited about any of my other films as much as they were about love hostel simply because it was so differentthe younger generation are exposed to so much on television and internet that they know whats being made and they know about certain genres which we never even heard of i was really nervous when they were watching the film and my brother sunny told me dont worry this ones going to work for you then my wife tanya said the same thing they werent sitting in the same room together and then my older son said the same thing and then the younger one followed and he too said the same thing they knew something about this film and about my character that would work for me everybody was so happy in our house after it released my brother wanted to throw a gettogether and celebrate but i was busy promoting the film those days and