/>On Saturday night just past-midnight, Sushmita Sen and her entourage of 17 close friends drove off for Goa to bring in her 33rd birthday on November 19.

Goa is an annual ritual for Sushmita's birthday.

Close friends of Sushmita know she's not looking for romance and love at this stage of her life at all. Says Sushmita, "Let's just say I'm single and ready to mingle....does that sound too trite?

Her birthday entourage which consisted of 17 very close family members and friends, included of course daughter Renee who at the moment occupies centrestage in Sushmita's life.

Says the actor, "I'm beyond that stage where I have to party and be with five hundred people to feel special. Every moment is special and I need no endorsement for it from the outside. Just being with the people who really matter to me is celebration enough."

Speaking of the fast-and-furious life Sushmita saw Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion this week and fell for it, hook line and sinker. "I'd say some of it is definitely authentic. I've been a part of that world.

And I know it's not easy to maintain your equilibrium. What really blew my mind were the performances Priyanka, Kangana and the new girl (Mugdha Godse). This is one film I'd have liked to be part of."

One of the highest points of Sushmita's life this year and a good way to bring in her birthday was the 'Fun Fearless Female' award which she got alongside Shah Rukh Khan in Comopolitan magazine's first awards in India .

"I like being perceived as fun and fearless. Because that's the way I am. It was a kind of lifetime achievement before my birthday. A little premature, don't you think?" she laughs heartily.

"But seriously, what made the award so special was that my daughter Renee was there to see her mother get this award. This was the first time she ever attended an awards function where her mother got an award. It felt wonderful to see Renee looking so proud of me."

As for marriage, "Marriage hasn't happened. . It will happen when it happens. What guarantee is there that after getting into marriage and after twenty years of togetherness I won't discover it was the wrong move for me?"

But why does she get tired of all her relationships? "You mean, do I dump the men? That's not true. Initially everything is hunky-dory in a relationship . Then there has to be some dori to holds hunky guy in our relationship. If not, then move on."

Talk veers to Dev Anand who turned 84 recently. "I'm inspired by his zest for life. And more than that his dignity. He deserves all the adulation.

Extremely charming. I don't know whether I'll live that long. But if I do I want to be as charming as Dev Saab. But it's impossible for me to go on that long. I'm on fast-burn all the time. As long as I live my life to the hilt I'm fine."