Turn offs
Talking to anyone the minute I get up.

Car now
A white Tata Sierra

Favourite TV shows
X-Files

Favourite drinks
Water, its the most potent drink

Favourite books
Enid Blyton’s Folk of the Faraway Tree, Richard Bach’s Bridge Across Forever and Jeffrey Archer’s Kane and Abel.

Philosophy of life
Live and let live

Allergies
Bananas and quite a few people who are dishonest, hypocrites and nosey Parkers

Vegetable you resemble most
A French bean

Secret ambition
You’ll have to wait some years. When I achieve it, you’ll know

Recurring dream
I’m a sound sleeper and never dream. I’m a day dreamer

Terrified of
Crowds, closed doors, darkness give me claustrophobia

Fave night activity
Anything but sleeping. Sleeping is so boring, I go to bed only because I need the rest.

Memorable moment
When I received the Filmfare Award after my accident. It felt good to be alive.

On what occasions do you lie
Whenever I want to avoid trouble but I’m such a bad liar that I invariably get into a deeper mess

On a blind date you’d go out with
No one. What if I went out and I didn’t like the man, it would be terrible even to sit through a cup of coffee with him.

If you were a burglar you’d steal
Someone - don’t ask me who because I won’t tell

One role you’d give your eye and teeth for
Sally Field’s in Not Without My Daughter

You’d like to be reborn as
This is my last birth, its moksha for me