The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.
Now that I am a part of the Hindi film industry, I hope I can do different roles with a lot of scope.
Thanks to Cheran, I play a city girl in 'Mayakkannadi.' I appear in trendy costumes and have more scope to perform.
I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor.
I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
I want to do films in as many genres - action, fantasy, period, classic love stories - as I can. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself.
I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.
I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.
Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
In my forthcoming movie 'Jerry,' I play a funny character, where there is scope for me to perform. I hope people would appreciate my performance. Hence forth I would concentrate on doing variety of roles, rather than appearing in skimpy costumes.
