/>Tired of watching Boman do the funny act? In Eklavya he's dead serious...dead being the key word."I did serious stuff in My Wife's Murder and Don. Then now in Eklavya ...I play a man whose history defines his present. I play a pitch-black character. Someone who's feared but who fears himself the most. It's the most complicated role I've ever done."

Vinod Chopra was someone Boman had worked with on the Munnabhai films. "Eklavya a larger than life film. And I've a very important role, like everyone else. Being directed by Vinod in Eklavya was something else. I had heard stories about Vinod losing his temper and throwing tantrums on the sets.

But he's like a child in a candy store. So passionate about his work that he forgets everything. Our discussions on the sets often went far beyond movies. We'd discuss scenes and then move on to discussing life. I had never imagined this side to Vinod."

In Eklavya Boman shares a very different screen chemistry with the Big B. "We had lots to laugh about in Vipul Shah's Waqt. In Eklavya we're thrown into an utterly grim situation. And bonding on an actual location (Rajasthan) makes things very different from saying bye-bye on sets."

Then there's the third film in the Munnabhai series happening very shortly. It's located in the US.

"I better be in it. Or I won't give them the visa to go there," Boman laughs. "Lage Raho...Munnabhai was a personal triumph. I was playing a different character from the first Munnabhai film. I quite liked my character in Lage Raho....He thinks he can get away with anything.

People were initially taken aback because I was playing a totally different character from the first film. They soon got a hang of it. Or else they'd have hung me by the nearest tree."

Next, Boman plays Shabana's loud gregarious husband in Reema Kagti's Honey Travels Pvt Ltd. And he wears a wig for the first time. Boman is all praise for the hair stylist Avan Contractor.

"She was all there. She read the script. Saw my character inside out and decided he needed a wigged look. She showed me about ten photographs and finally said, 'Your character is stuck in time.' That's exactly how I saw my character. Our costume designer worked out a bell-bottomed dude's look. I'm very happy to get roles like Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd."