Everybody Says Rahul Bose is fine

RAHUL Bose seems to have struck gold. Time magazine has featured him as India's answer to alternative cinema and Bose can't stop smiling. Just last year, he won similar acclaim for his directorial venture Everybody Says I'm fine. But Rahul's not content. 'I am always hungry for more', says the intelligent actor. No wonder, he's getting the best offers. Even commercial filmmakers can't get enough of him after Jhankaar Beats. But Rahul refuses to dance around trees. 'I will never do that,' he maintains. Excerpts from an interview with the verbose Bose on the sets of Chameli :

After Mr & Mrs Iyer released, there hasn't been a week when there haven't been Press interviews to do. I went abroad for four months just for publicity. Of course, it feels great, but it also gets tiring. Not that I'm complaining. Right now again I've been doing the whole publicity gig for Chameli which is set for December.

I have been offered 22 films in the last two months. I've rejected about 17 already. I choose films according to the role, story, and director. There has to be something original and fresh about it. I reject films if the story doesn't do anything to me. It has to be convincing.

Yes I am. I don't want to do them. I will never do commercial films. I hate run-of-the-mill, formula films. I don't watch these films. And I'm not interested in doing films that I can't watch.

It's shaping up into a good film. I accepted Chameli because my role in it is wonderful and the story is beautiful and original. Chameli is about an investment banker who is forced to spend a rainy night on the footpath with a prostitute, as the roads are flooded, his car has broken down, and his cell phone isn't working. She works in that area, but did not get any customers that night.

Kareena surprises me every time. She is curious, instinctive and confident, which are the best qualities any actor can have. It's been a great experience shooting with her. In spite of being a commercial film actress, Kareena is someone I work well with.

Yes. My next film is about two people who don't talk, touch, meet, but fall in love. No, not love, they fall in need. The way I've created the film is very surreal, visual, and unspoken. The film is very poetic. LMN

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