Those who've lately labelled her the "flop queen" can think again. Kareena Kapoor has just delivered two hits within two weeks.

While Priyadarshan's Hulchul is a winner, the Diwali release Aitraaz was a slow starter but has gone on to become what's known in film trade as a "commission earner."

"In today's day and age don't you think a film that doesn't lose money and actually makes some profits is a rarity?" Kareena says on the sets on Priyadarshan's new non-comedy, tentatively titled Rang, in Chennai.

Dressed in a sari to suit her doctor's "serious" look, she looks smashing.

One can't say success has added to her lustre and radiance. Even when she was being looked upon as a flop queen, Kareena radiated supreme confidence bordering on arrogance. "Do I look arrogant?" she shoots back.

"I can't help the way I look. If it affects others, it isn't my fault. If you look at my public conduct you'll see I've never said anything nasty about anyone."

She pauses for thought. "Now of course they'll find me even more arrogant.

Law of averages. Two flops... pull her down. Two hits...pull her down even more. Well the law of averages doesn't apply to me, because I'm not an average person."

This is certainly a change from the actress' earlier avatar when she seemed to exude only arrogance with no staying power to back her aplomb.

Now with Aitraaz and Hulchul doing well, Kareena seems to be moving where she was always meant to be. "I always knew Hulchul would be a massy film. It's designed to be massy, though it isn't messy like some of the other big films recently," he says.

Strangely, all her films this year — Chameli, Yuva, Fida, Dev, Aitraaz and Hulchul — have had one-worded titles. "And each one carried me forward as an actress.

So I wasn't crying buckets at home even when they didn't do well at the box office," says the actress.

Though Aitraaz has done well, doesn't Kareena wish she had played Priyanka Chopra's role? "No, not really.

In fact I was offered that role when it was a different set-up. But at that point of time I was already playing villain in Fida. So I preferred playing the wife in Aitraaz," she says.

Kareena says she was disappointed by the way Fida was received, though not by her pairing with Shahid.

"It isn't we who failed as a pair. But our characters required us to be hostile most of the time. Audiences can see how compatible we look together when Satish Kaushik's Milenge Milenge is released next year," says Kareena.

And marriage? Kareena rolls her eyes and grins. "Where's the time to think of marriage for either of us for another five years? Both Shahid and I are extremely busy with our respective careers. I've just got the reputation of a hit queen. Let me enjoy it, na?" she adds.

Next year begins for Kareena with the author-backed role in Dharmesh Darshan's Bewafaa. "It will do for me what Dharmesh's Raja Hindustani did for my sister," she predicts. Then, there is a project with Shyam Benegal.