Urmila Matondkar is rather chilled out these days. After a long time she feels relaxed that the media has eased up on paying too much attention to her personal life. That it is no longer a favourite topic for the press and her fans alike. "Don't they get tired of writing the same stuff?" she wondered. She is also "in the throes" of her other favourite pastime – books, besides movies, and has re-read all her dearly loved authors ranging from Dostoevsky to Tolstoy and Sidney Sheldon to Jeffrey Archer.

She firmly believes that actors "should read whatever they can lay their hands on." Of course, there are her female co-stars who come up with "She has all the time in the world to bury her nose in books, what with hardly any roles up her sleeve," which Urmi laughed at with an equally befitting repartee, "That's because I have a passion for reading unlike most of them who party all night and spend the rest of their waking hours in salons or romancing their boyfriends."

For those of you who came in late, here's the latest on her career front – she has Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi's Pinjar and Ram Gopal Varma's Bhoot, besides the about-to-be-released Deewangee, and is pretty much gung ho about her choice of roles. Let's wait for at least one Bollywood actress who gets inspiration from books and hopefully will translate all her learning into her performances. Kajol, are you listening?