I've been lucky because wonderful filmmakers have approached me with great subjects. I have had offers which may not have come to me otherwise and then I decide what I really want to do.

Fifty per cent of my career is planning and 50 per cent is chance. After spending a year and five months in the industry, I know what I want.

This year will be important because I am doing action, comedy and a thriller. I think I have figured the kind of roles I would like to play -- the roles that I will comfortable in. I would love to do more comedy and more romantic films like Andaaz. But if I have to do another action film, I would like to do it in far spaces because right now, my body is aching [the actress recently finished a strenuous shoot of Elaan, in which she does action sequences for the first time]!

I am fortunate because though I have been in the industry for only 17 months, I have had two releases. Both saw me in a different light. Normally, you tend to get stuck in a set image. For instance, people would offer a Miss Universe who has lived in New York a Western image.

I have not been typecast even in my forthcoming films. I am playing an Indianised middle-class girl in Bardaasht as well as a sexy woman in Masti. And Monica [in Masti] is not a bimbette. She has a brain and she thinks with it.

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