/> A press release from the producers of her next film have the fiery much talked-about actress Shahana Goswami seething in indignation.

"I can't understand why they're highlighting ten kisses between me and Randeep Hooda in Ru-ba-ru. First of all , who's counting? Certainly not the audiences! Surely they've matured far enough to not get carried away by kisses. Also, there aren't those many kisses at all. I'd rather be known for more than just kissing in my films."

As Arjun Rampal's disgruntled unhappy embittered tyrant of a wife in Abhishrk Kapoor's Rock On, 22-year old Sahahana Goswami rips the screen apart.

As Shabana Azmi said appreciatively, where did that come from??!! "Did she?" laughs Shahana a day after the release of Rock On when the compliments are pouring in.

"I guess I've never shied away from real emotions, never had to be over-sheltered or mollycoddled by my parents during my growing years in Delhi.

I feel at times the person whom you love has to be told what to do, even if it makes him or her unhappy and resentful. Like my mom forced me to go through college. I hated it at that time. But today I'm thankful to her. Similarly in Rock On I had the thankless job of being a nagging pesky embittered wife. I loved it."

The 22-year old theatre-honed actress is out for new challenges. "I worked with this wonderful theatre group called Working Titles. Strangely most of my films are either episodic or I'm part of an ensemble cast.

The only exception is my next releae Ru-ba-ru where Randeep and I play lovers who've crossed the stage of euphoria into stagnancy. So again it's an unconventional role. I'd say it's a love story that begins where other filmy love stories end."

Another unconventional role? "In Sudhir Mishra's Tera Kya Hoga Johnny I'm Neil Nitin Mukesh's girl married to a much older man KayKay Menon.

Is that too much of the unconventional for me? I don't mind. I've always wanted to be an actress. If today I'm getting to play anyone from the age of 18 to 32 and I can do it comvincingly, why not?

As a child I'd take my mother's dupatta on my head and speak to myself in the mirror. The habit remains. I still speak to myself, though now I don't get much time to do that."

Coming up soon from Shahana is Nandita Das's Firaaq where she features in one episode with Marathi actress Amrita Subhash. "Nandita saw me in Naseeruddin Shah's Yun Hota To Kya Hota and cast me. So although I'm not much remembered by my first film I still owe a lot to it."

Any specific ambitions? "Only undefined yearnings. I want to do everything from the nagging wife to the conventional Bollywood girl singing songs around trees."