Starlet and former Miss India Tanushree Dutta is happy with the way her career has been shaping up. She has no regrets of not being paired or acting with topguns of the industry like Big B or SRK.

She says, "I am happy with the way my career has taken off though I have not had a Shah Rukh Khan or for that matter Amitabh Bachchan on my platter."

Every step that she takes for her career 'is very important.' She admits, "I do not think I can push my way to bag the banners in which I want to work. I have not picked up the phone till date to ask for a role because you do not know how a particular producer or director will react."

Claiming that she is a 'very reserved person' Tanushree says it is her nature and not attitude. She feels 'the day the big banners or for that matter directors feel that I deserve to be in their films, I am sure they would make it a point to call me and offer their films.'

The actress is excited about her role in 'Good Boy Bad Boy' where she plays the role of a 'very brash, young college girl called Dinky' who is seemingly a bad girl.

Tanushree gushes, "The best thing about the film is that each and every one, whether it is me, Tusshar Kapoor or for that matter Emraan Hashmi play roles which have both positive as well as grey shades."

She has a prominent role in the film though it is named 'Good Boy Bad Boy.' The actress is all praise for the director Ashwini Chowdhry who had earlier directed 'Dhoop'. According to her he 'is a very brilliant director who extracts the best performances out of his actors.'

She has no qualms about confessing that she 'will always remain indebted to Subhash Ghai and Mukta Arts because it was the first big banner which had come forward to sign me after both 'Chocolate' and 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' were released but did not prove to be great at the box office.'

Tanushree has no regrets of having done a negative character in 'Raqeeb.' "I am happy I was offered this out and out negative role. It is something, which I am doing for the first time in my career since I had made my debut with 'Chocolate'."

She claims she 'did not have to do a lot of homework to get into the skin of the character because the director Anurag Singh was very clear about how the character will behave.'

The actress says, "I need a director to help me perform. A good director can bring the best out of me. I should confess that I have not seen any one who is as passionately involved with his project as Raj Kanwar who is producing this film.'

She goes on to say that she was more than excited when she heard the script as 'I have been always on the look out for different exciting characters.' Her role in 'Raqeeb' is 'different, exciting as well as challenging as an actress, because to do the same thing again and again is boring.'

She adds, "The character needed a particular look of madness. Though I am the only leading lady of the film, which also has Rahul Khanna and Jimmy Sheirgill, you will find not one but three Tanushrees in 'Raqeeb'."

Her role in Priyadarshan's 'Dhol', Tanushree says 'is something which is dynamically different from the one that I am playing in Raqeeb.' In this movie 'I play the girl next door called Ritu who is a small town girl.

"I could identify with the character in a jiffy because like Ritu, I too come from a small town like Jamshedpur, where I have lived most of my life, though I had studied for my high school in Pune."

She denies that she had done a friendly appearance in 'Bhaagam Bhaag' because Pridarshan had promised to cast her in his next film 'Dhol.'

She says, "Priydarshan ji did not at all promise me that he would cast me in his next film 'Dhol'. I also did not have any expectations at all. I decided to do the friendly appearance only because I was very keen on working with Govinda, Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan ji.

Sometimes I prefer to give my grey cells some rest and take up certain work with gut feeling. It rang a bell when I got the offer to do a friendly appearance in 'Bhaagam Bhaag'.

Priyadarshanji liked my work in 'Bhaagam Bhaag' and three months after I had shot for 'Bhaagam Bhaag', I received a call from a private number. It was Priyadarshanji on the line. He offered me this role in 'Dhol'."

A firm believer in the gut feeling, Tanushree admits of having done a guest appearance in '36 China Town' for Subhash Ghai and Abbas-Mustan based on her feelings.

"My gut feeling had paid me off even at that time. At that point of time, I had finished shooting for one schedule for Ashwini Chowdhury's 'Good Boy Bad Boy', as a part of my three-film contract with Mukta Arts.

Soon after I completed my work in '36 China Town', Abbas and Mustan offered to cast me in their next film 'Mr Fraud' along with Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Anuj Saawhney."

Agreeing she was wasted in 'Risk', Tanushree says, "In Risk my role was supposed to be a full-fledged one but it ended up as a guest appearance. It was definitely a case of misjudgement on my part. I should say it was a gut feeling, which went wrong.

It came as a big disappointment because though the promos had me in a big way, I had no role in it. People who expected to see Tanushree did not get what they wanted because it was out and out a male dominated film.

On the other side, I choose to see the glass as half-full and not half empty. Because films come and go, but people do not even remember them, whereas I am remembered even for my zero role in 'Risk'."

She denies that she ever had a relationship with Aditya Dutt who directed her in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne'. "My friendship with Aditya had always confused the media into coming to wrong inference. I have not given much thought to Mr Right at this stage of my career.

Mr Right can wait for the next 10 years, as I prefer to stay away from attachment. They say when you meditate; you have to do it all alone and cannot do with five people. Similarly, when you concentrate on your career, you cannot afford to get involved." - Jyothi Venkatesh