Generally, my strategy has been not to overbook myself. I keep myself busy for three, four months hoping something better will come and fall in my lap. If nothing happens after two or two and a half months, then I pick up something else.

At a given stage, I am busy for three months. That's how I'm able to honour any offer that comes from abroad or from here. Like Dhoop, which came suddenly. For films like Dhoop they want to shoot at a stretch because it becomes expensive for them -- 30 days at stretch. I love that. That's how films should be made and that's how they are made abroad. Not like us, one film is being shot for one year, one-and-a-half year.

On receiving the OBE

I was startled. I knew of the OBE -- which is like our Padma Shri or Padam Bhushan -- but didn't know it was also given to people who did not live there. I thought kahi galti se to nahi diya? Thinking that I am a citizen of England!