Now he is scaling bigger challenger by acting in prestigious assignments like Mira Nair's ‘Namesake'and Naseeruddin Shah's ‘Yun Hota To Kya Hota'. Recently some foreign film magazines and noted filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar refered to him as Hindi cinema's latest Sex God.
Ask him how he feel about it and he tells,"I wonder how true that is, I can just smile over it. Such glorification fulfills my basic human need to be known and to be accorded due importance. But then, I am well aware of the fact that these tags and titles are for a while and I cannot depend on them for a lifelong. I take it as a moment of glory in my life.