Vidya: 'Considering 2-3 scripts, but def not doing Durga Rani Sin

[quote] don't bite the hand that initially fed you[/quote]

Then ask that hand to stop putting itself to the mouth.

Do you make New Year resolutions?

I have stopped making resolutions because I realise the moment I say I am not doing something, I end up doing it on the very first day of the year. It's almost as if, I don't like knowing that something is off-limits. I am, you know, a rebel without a cause (laughs). So no resolutions for me. I am in a better space though, health-wise and mentally too. I had gone through a few tough months (healthwise), so I am glad that all that's behind me and now, I am feeling healthy and refreshed.

Is there anything in particular that you are looking forward to in this year?

There's no agenda as such, but what I am looking forward to in the New Year are more exciting scripts. I won't say there is a dearth of good scripts, but I haven't come across anything that has excited me for a while now. There are two-three scripts that are under consideration, and it's going to be a toss-up between them. I also hope to travel this year. The past year was not that great on travel. Siddharth (Roy Kapur) and I have begun to enjoy travelling and exploring new places.

Tell us about something special that you usually do on your birthday that falls on January 1?

Birthday plans are always about being with Siddharth and the family"to go home and wake my parents, even if they are asleep and ask them to wish me'!

Are you finally getting on to the new media bandwagon"Twitter and Facebook etc?

So many people have been asking me to sign up for Twitter. I have been thinking about it, so I might just relent. In the past year, I have had regular people come up and ask me, Why aren't you on any social networking site? There is so much that we would like to chat with you about.'
I have always wondered about what I am going to Tweet. But may be, there is something to it. It could happen that I might disappear after the first tweet, but so what? I should at least give it a shot. So that is perhaps the only resolution for me" to be more connected.

After a spate of successive hits like The Dirty Picture and Kahaani, your recent films didn't work. Did that affect you?

Oh yes! When Ghanchakkar didn't work, it really affected me because I had given five back-to-back hugely acclaimed hits, and then the Ghanchakkar fiasco happened. It was a shocker. With Shaadi Ke Side Effects, I dealt with it in a better manner. I still feel Bobby Jasoos is one of those films wherein we put our best efforts. The entire team was in touch with each other, and we wondered why the film wasn't working. But we also knew that we had done all we could. A lot of people told us that it was because we had positioned a human interest story as a detective film. But even if that was true, there's nothing much that could be done. It's not that I was not disappointed, it's just that I dealt with it in a better manner, though it's never easy when a film is riding on you. Luckily, I was in a better frame of mind, so I wasn't personalising anything. It's not being thick-skinned, but you learn to deal with such things. What's interesting is that 2014 was the year of women-centric films. Someone told me a few days ago that I had started the trend. I don't mean to take credit for it because it is a function of the times " we are ready for these kind of films. This year several women-centric films worked but Bobby Jasoos didn't, so it really depends on many elements. In a strange way even though I didn't believe when people kept saying that I had started the trend, somewhere, I was scared. I kept feeling that the bubble will burst and it did. Ups and downs, ebbs and flows happen, and it validates some of your beliefs. It's also humbling, but nothing that I wouldn't stand by. That's a consolation that I still stand by each one of my films. I hope that Hamaari Adhuri Kahaani works and that people really love it.