Abhishek Bachchan has turned a busy bee these days promoting his much-awaited films Game and Dum Maaro Dum, both releasing in April. Sreya Basu catches up with the actor in Mumbai.

Do you think promoting a film well plays an important role in deciding its Box Office fate?
We can't force today's audience to come and see a film. We can try to excite you as much as possible by us through promotions, sending out five star dinners and promos (laughs).

Will you say the same for Game?
Game is a film I am very excited about because it's my first film with two very dear friends of mine-Farhan Akhtar ( producer) and Ritesh Sidhwani (producer). We had been waiting for very long to work together on the right script.

I have really enjoyed myself while making the film. It's my favourite genre- whodunit murder mystery-and wanted to do one desperately. I have seen the film and it has turned out fantastic.

So I am very confident about it. I have been a huge fan of Abhinay Deo (director) for a very long time; especially his commercials. I was actually trying for a very long time to get him to do a film with me and he kept saying 'no'.

Now-a-days all big budget films are doing well. What do you have to say about that?
You know, you have to go with the film. Yes, budgets do matter if it's insanely priced. But here, we haven't made the film (Game) for Rs 10 crores and are selling it for Rs 18 crores.

We are not doing that. We are not here to make money, but to make a quality film that we all can be proud of. I hope this film does well...that's the only thing we can do.

You have three pretty women (Sarah Jane Dias, Shahana Goswami, Kangana Ranaut) in Game. Who threw most tantrums at you?
Boman Irani (laughs). Boman, Jimmy (Shergill) and Anupam uncle (Kher)-all three of them are very beautiful. But Boman was the most troublesome.

You have a second release in April-Dum Maaro Dum...
Dum Maaro Dum is a film by my childhood friend Rohan (Sippy) and was equally exciting to make as Game. I play ACP Vishnu Kamath in Dum Maaro Dum. He's a self-destructive cop fleeing his own past. I was given charge to destroy the drug mafia in Goa.

Of late, we are seeing you experimenting with characters. How are you picking your scripts?
Lot of the time, you hear a script that inspires you and you do it. That's the way I work. I never worked based on a strategy...that, now I will do comedy, then action, and then I will do something else. It's just so happened that now I am doing a murder mystery (Game) and then, an action thriller (Dum Maaro Dum).

You are also doing Dhoom 3. That's an action film too...
Dhoom 3 will be end of next year. There will be three-four releases before that.

When will your fans see you and Aishwarya (Rai Bachchan) together on screen again?
I don't know...may be whenever a right script is ready.

Recently, you and Aishwarya have been voted the "It" couple of Bollywood. What do you have to say about that?
Really? I didn't know that. But honestly, the two of us have no false illusions of grandeur.