/> Laughing loudly at the rumours that she has been getting progressively superstitious and religious to salvage her career Nisha Kothari says, "No, I'm not adding extra 'a' and 'k's to my name. Nor am I visiting a dozen deities for my welll-being. My parents and I just visited one temple.

In any case I'm not unanswerable to anyone except my family. What I do with my life is entirely my business...."

Crying foul against charges of misconduct on the sets of Aditya Dutta's Good Luck Nisha Kothari gets progressively angry. "I've never in my life abused anyone. Stories of my bad behaviour on the sets of Good Luck are growing. And now I no longer find these rumours funny."

According to stories doing the rounds, Nisha threw her weight around and had to be sacked from Good Luck.

She's a bit lost on this ome. "How can that be? I've never shot for any film called Good Luck! I've met the director just once at Keshu Ramsay's office, and that too for half an hour. I couldn't give them the dates that they wanted.

I'm supposed to have thrown tantrums and abused my colleagues and I was supposed to be careless with my work... I said no to Good Luck and maybe some people didn't like that. I had no choice. I was committed to a Telugu film. And I didn't want to wriggle out of it."

She asserts she hasn't shot for a single day for Good Luck. "And yet this is the third story on my misbehaviour. How can they talk like this? I'd rather concentrate on my work. But now this has become a bit too much. Just because I didn't shoot for them should they spread rumours about me?"

Losing the frown she talks about her role as Basanti in Ramu's Sholay. "I just finished dubbing my role. I have seen Hemaji in the earlier Sholay But my character Ghungroo is not Basanti. We dress speak and behave differently.

Ghungroo is not dumb. She behaves like a man. But she's all woman inside. She's a bundle of contradictions. She behaves like a Tapori. But is all woman from inside. Sometimes she's so stubborn, then she's soft. There're so many different emotions to express in one character.

I'm lucky to have got such a role so early in my career. And to work with so many huge actors in one film, wow! Many of them,I've been watching from the time I was a child?"

Including Ajay Devgan? Nisha quickly catches on. "I don't know how much older he is. But Ajay is one of my favourite actors."

Nisha has just completed a Telugu film. "It's called Okkamagaru with Balakrishnan who's very hot in Andhra. I had stared my career with a Tamil film Jai Jai with Madhavan. Now I've done a Telugu film.

I don't care about the language of a film, as long as it is a good film with a meaty role for me. I'd rather work in a regional film than sit at home waiting for Hindi films."