/> In a forthcoming film E Niwas' My Name Is Anthony Gonzalves Lilette Dubey plays an NRI filmmaker who's down in Mumbai to make a film.

Says Lilette, "Well, yes. It is a film about a filmmaker quite like Mira Nair who comes down to Mumbai to make a film about the underworld which is inspired by Julius Caesar. It's a film dominated by strong male actors like Anupam Kher and Om Puri. My part stands out for its rather unorthodox antecedents and bearings."

From director to movie producer... Lilette plays Saurabh Shukla's love interest in Shukla's When I'm 24. "She's a very stylish movie/tv producer. A very cute cameo.

She's also doing Jahnu Barua's new film "It's not a central role. But I wanted to work with Jahnu for a long time."

And in Pankh which is the first of Sanjay Gupta's arthouse films Lilette plays the central role of the mother of of a boy who's cross-dressed as a child to get acting assignments in films."

Says Lilette, "In Pankh I do play the main lead, again with a very young actor, just like I did recently in Bow Barracks Forever. Since I tumbled into cinema past-40, I've just followed my heart. I want to be in as many kinds of cinema as possible.

When you come from theatre you're very spoilt as an actor. The range of work you get to do on stage is staggering.Cinema is by its very nature self-limiting.But I don't want to get slotted."

What happened to all the big commercial filmmakers who are enamoured of Lilette Dubey? "I might be working with Ravi Chopra again after Baghban where I had to speak to shuddh Hindi. My husband had such a laugh."

Lilette has just been touring all over the country with Vijay Tendulkar's Kanyaadan. She has produced and directed it. "We've staged it in Chennai, Gurgaon, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Dubai and we'll probably take it to the US. It was written 26 years ago.

Everyone was apprehensive about how it would be received now. But it's such a terrific play and yet remains so topical. The caste war precipitated by a marriage between two individuals from different sections is so much in the news.

The sad truth is not much has changed in our society since Tendulkar wrote the play. Fortuntalely the same needn't be said about our cinema. So much exciting work would've not been possible for an actor like me."

Lilette's latest release Bow Barracks Forever has got her rave reviews. "For the first time I got to share screen space with my daughter Neha. She's not in India right now. She's gone to London for a year now to do her Masters. So she's taken a sabbatical from acting.

Do I miss her? No chance to do so. We're constantly connected."