Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds..

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the v….

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding..

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting a….

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents f….

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me s….

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discoura….

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you..

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first..

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped..

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for….

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval..

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've m….

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that a….

As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electrici….

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family..

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did..

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife..

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days whe….

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do..