Akshaye Khanna’s Next With Rumy Jaffery

Insisting that he had not changed one bit despite his recent success, Rumy says, “logon ki nazariya badal gayi” (it is people’s perceptions that have changed.) He stresses that Akshaye had “put the same level of commitment into Chhaava and Dhurandhar as he had for Gali Gali Chor Hai.”

Asked if it was hair loss that was behind the lean phase, the writer-director agrees that Akshaye’s refusal to wear wigs had indeed cost him all the lead roles that came his way. “But more than that, it was his transparency when it came to people and work that slowed him down,” says Rumy. “He won’t work with people he doesn’t like even if they offer him `100 crores. Pasand ya napasand uske chehre pe saaf dikhta hai.”