"Don't ask me anything about Ranbir," snaps the 61-year-old actor who has just started shooting for Umesh Shukla's All Is Well whose second schedule has been delayed by a month or so because Abhishek Bachchan was busy with Happy New Year. "He and I are two distinct individuals, so it's not right to constantly bombard me with questions about Ranbir."
The duo was last seen together in Abhinav Kashyap's Besharam, with Neetu Kapoor. The film got terrible reviews and tanked. And since then, the trio haven't been approached for another film.
"It was bloody disappointing. Neetu, Ranbir and I are all sorry we did that film. When Abhinav approached us, I thought it would be an entertaining film but it went terribly wrong. He was over confident, still high on the success of Dabangg. However if he comes up with a better script, may be I'll work with him again," he says.
Rishi has also been busy with a political satire, Aayi Bala Ko Taal Tu, which revolves around a toilet scam in Haryana and Punjab. He plays a corrupt politician, who doesn't use the money he gets from the Centre to build the much-needed loos.
"It's not a toilet film," he says pointing out, "But the fact is that there's a scarcity of public toilets in villages and maximum rapes happen there between 5.30-6 am because women have to go out into the open. We are dealing with a serious issue but our narrative is witty!"