/> So far we thought Konkona Sen-Sharma was following in Shabana Azmi's foot steps to play a lesbian in her new film The President Is Coming.

Konkona's next two releases The President Is Coming and Luck By Chance have her pretty agog. "They aren't the usual kind of films. The President Is Coming is a very funny mock-documentary I cracked up when I was doing it."

The film is Konkona's own Dostana. Her character pretends to be a lesbian to get her own way.

"It's a marketing strategy for the film, and I don't mind, " says Konkona. "The film's release got postponed because of 26/11. I was in Rajasthan when it happened, and very worried when I saw the news channel.

So though I was lucky not to be harmed I was shocked and disgusted....The film didn't matter at that moment. But my other film Dil Kabbaddi got released soon after 26/11. Some people liked it. But not too many I admit."

Konkona was working throughout 2008 though she didn't have that many releases. "Rituparno Ghosh's Sunglass and The President Is Coming got delayed.

Now I've Zoya Akhtar's Luck By Chance. Zoya had written the script so long ago. She knew what she wanted. I play a starlet. It's quite funny. She is the lead in B-graders and hero ki bahen. I had to keep dressing in different costumes.

One day I was a junior artiste in a 1930s', next day I was a nurse. Like Farhan's character I play a struggler in my own right."

Konkona has Luck By Chance coming out in January. "And then I go straight to Wake Up Sid in June. Both have me playing the formal female lead. But to me the impact of the role has nothing to do with its size. Sometimes you do a film just because of the director."