I open fire only when required: Sonakshi Sinha

With three Rs 100crore grossers in your kitty Dabangg Rowdy Rathore and Son of Sardaar you are considered Bollywood39s lucky mascot Yesterday this title was with somebody else today it is with me and tomorrow it will again be with someone else I am making sure I do not get attached to the lsquolucky mascotrsquo tag When a filmmaker approaches me with a script I donrsquot think about a 100 crores I have been blessed to work with good people I am not the lucky charm Sonakshi Sinha in a still from Dabangg 2 With Dabangg 2 you will have four releases this year and several more are slated for the next Do you fear a burnout Kal kya hoga mujhe nahin pata but as of now I am very happy doing my work It also depends on whether you are satisfied with the films you are doing Akshay Kumar does five movies a year It39s each to his own How would you charter your growth in the industry With every film and from every new person I work with I learn a lot of things Because I have never gone to an acting school I pick up the technicalities of filmmaking and acting by watching others and conversing with them My cameraman teaches me about angles and lighting and from coactors such as Salman Khan Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn I learn professionalism Has Salman ever commented on how you have become a star now He has been doing that since I was 15 Even if he criticises it is for a positive result I lost weight and became an actress because pf jo and now I am successful He is very happy about it I take whatever he says in the right spirit Salman has a strong personality both off and onscreen How do you manage to make your presence felt around him I am very comfortable around him because I have known him for years He does not intimidate me and that helps translate into a comfortable chemistry onscreen Salman is a lot of fun on the sets as he39s very chilled out He improvises a lot and comes up with really interesting stuff It39s nice to see someone who can think so quickly on his feet Dabangg 2 is Arbaaz Khanrsquos first film as a director What did he bring to the table He is fantastic In fact I told him that Dabangg 2 doesnrsquot look like itrsquos his first directorial venture he should have started directing long ago Hersquos so well versed with Dabangg Even as the producer of the first film he used to give us a lot of inputs whenever he visited the sets From the promos of Dabangg 2 it seems you have put on some weight The look of the film is such I am pregnant in the film and saris make you look a bit mature and heavy I am very comfortable in my skin And I donrsquot really want to talk about it much the more I talk the more people write A still from Dabangg 2 has stirred the rumour that the film is your boldest film ever No it isnrsquot I will never do anything out of my comfort zone There isn39t anything bold about Dabangg 2 itrsquos a complete family film Most of the characters you have essayed have had you playing a desi girl Will we see you donning a western avatar in the future I have an IndoWestern look in my forthcoming film Bullet Raja alongside Saif Ali Khan It has been a coincidence that till date my looks have been Indian but I am not complaining In the future if I get an urban role that suits my character and personality I will do it Does your filmi background come with advantages People obviously compare when you are the daughter of an actor like Shatrughan Sinha But it has not been that bad I have sort of come into my own The advantages do not apply to me since I did not dream of becoming an actor as a child Had I told my parents at 15 that I wanted to be an actor they would have worked towards it Your Twitter handle is Shotgun Junior So when do you open fire Only when required never unnecessarily or when I am not provoked There are negative comments in the newspapers every day but Irsquom not bothered I get provoked very rarelymdashwhen unfair or incorrect things are said or written about my family or therersquos something against my values and principles