/> After trying his hand at a serious marital drama in Ankahee Aftab Shivdasani seems to have swerved into a familiar lane.

After turning down several offers to get seriously funny after the two comic hits Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega and Masti Aftab has decided to return to the farcical fold.

"That's right," Aftab reveals. "I'm going back to comedy with Anant Mahadevan's film which is tentatively titled Aankh Micholi. It's a fun film featuring Fardeen and me. Then there's another comedy with E. Niwas featuring Riteish Deshmukh.

People have enjoyed watching me with Fardeen in Love Ki Liye ... and with Riteish in Masti. So I suppose you'd call it a winning combination."

Aftab doesn't sound too happy about returning to comedy. "But what do we do? My friend Vikram Bhatt and I did Ankahee which we thought was really pushing the envelope. God knows where the envelope got pushed.

It didn't work. I'm still all for doing different films. And in fact I'm doing a daring Red with Vikram. But I've to do work that audiences watch. If it's comedy that they want, I'll just have to do that genre for now."

Aftab has had three successes in the comic genre including one Awaara Paagal Deewana with his 'serious' friend Vikram Bhatt. With the success of a spate of comedies including Phir Hera Pheri Aftab has every reason to return to what is considered his forte.

In the meanwhile he features in the long-delayed but innovative science fiction Jaane Kya Hoga with Bipasha Basu. It could have been Bollywood's first sci-fi film long before Krissh.

Says Aftab, "You may be right. Such things happen. Jaane Kya Hoga was delayed. It's finally being released on June 30. I'm still very proud of it. It's the first Indian film about human cloning. Audiences will get to see two of me in the film. The real and the cloned."

Just like the serious and funny Aftab Shivdasani.