Do films like Straight challenge you as an actor where the scope to perform is minimal?
Every film, every role and every scene I do in films is a challenge. I don’t think I’ll be able to perform if I am constantly nervous or stressed.
It’s difficult to some extent playing a character which has a dominant driving emotion in films like Manorama or Dor. When there isn’t a particularly outstanding over bearing trait in her personality, such roles are much harder.
Much harder even to make these characters look real and normal …

After concentrating all her efforts on her home production ‘Dil Ka Rishta’, Ash is now slow to sign films. But don’t be mistaken, the lady is merely picking and choosing her films with great care. So she’s got a great line-up of interesting projects that should last her a long time already. Check out the awesome films in her kitty. There’s Rituparnno Ghosh’s ‘Choker Bali’ (which reportedly she’s already completed); Gurinder Chaddha’s ‘Bride and Prejudice’ which could have a Hollywood actor opposite Ash; Rajkumar Santoshi’s ‘Khakee’ which is already a …