No. I always say, it's not the manzil [destination] but the journey that matters. I often don't watch my completed films. I enjoy the process of acting in them. I push it, promote it, participate in the projection, and then move on. I don't make any inquiries about the box-office performance. It isn't that I'm detached from the end-result, it's because I hope for the sake of the people behind my films that they do well. I enjoy doing all my films, regardless of how they perform.

As for Swades, I told [director] Ashutosh Gowariker that it won't work commercially. The film was nobly intended. Even Main Hoon Na had a noble thought [fighting terrorism] behind it. There are ways and ways of putting a message across.