In one role, she played a simple south Indian girl who gets married and dies. She brought out innocence in that. In the other, she played the arresting film personality who was extremely arrogant, pretty and tomboyish.

Is she trapped in an image now?

Not really. In Mistress Of Spices, she plays a person who is not glamorous. In the beginning, you wonder how she will play the Mistress of Spices but, in the end, you realise she is the Mistress of Spices, a simple person who is running a shop.

Was it difficult to make her non-glamorous?

(laughs) Yes.