/> "They're not letting me play, yaar!" Arshad complains mock-bitterly. He's currently in London playing a football player in Vivek Agnihotri's Goal.

"But I'm hardly getting to play! John Abraham and all the rest are having the time of their life. While I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs."

Reason? "I play an injured soccer player for most of the film. So I get to be on the filed at the beginning. But that's it. After that I'm out. It's very very frustrating specially since I know I'm a better player than most of my colleagues on the team. In fact our football choreographer saw me play,and wondered why I wasn't doing more of it. I guess the script demands that John's character be made heroic while I sulk around. So be it."

The one person who cheers Arshad up is his co-star in Goal. "She's a Briton-based Australian actress named Zara James Naqvi and she's amazing. I've never had a better co-star. She's done seven years of theatre in England, and boy does she give me tit for at on screen."

All those long hours when Arshad has to go through the agony of watching his colleagues whoop it up on the filed, he has Zara for company.