'Lucky Singh' Boman Irani is confident that 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai" will do well at the Oscars, where it has entered in the 'independent category' after losing the official entry status from India to "Rang De Basanti".

"One of the script writers of the movie Abhijat Joshi, who teaches in the US, showed it to film critics there, and they were completely bowled over and said that it deserved to be at the Oscars," he says and adds, " we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Irani also sniggers at the controversy over the word 'Gandhigiri' in the sequel to "Munna Bhai MBBS."

"'Gandhigiri' is an idiom that today's masses can associate, hence its popularity. Even Gandhiji used common man's language to express his views," says Irani who was here to participate in a 'public conversation'.

Irani who himself played Gandhiji in a play, "Mahatma vs Gandhi" says "I read that the simplicity of the language Gandhiji applied to connect with the masses was deliberate, Director Rajkumar Hirani used the same logic here," he says.

Talking about his various characters, whether it is Doctor Asthana in "Munna Bhai MBBS," or Lucky Singh in 'Lage Raho" or Kishan Khurana in "Khosla Ka Ghosla, he says that all these characters were based after research on real life characters. "Life is the biggest show on earth, and I get inspired by it," he says.