Don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl: Anushka on plans to join Hollywood

Mumbai: While Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone are all set to make their Hollywood debut with 'Baywatch' and 'xXx', Anushka Sharma says that she is not working towards making a mark on foreign shores.

Anushka, who is busy promoting her upcoming film 'Sultan' with Salman Khan, said, "Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting. I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl. The cliches are there, so if I do something, it has to be interesting. What Priyanka and Deepika are doing is amazing. More power to them."

She further added, "They are representing our country in a way and they are making more opportunities for other people. It's awesome, but I am not working towards it."

Talking about sharing screen space with Salman, the actress said that it was intimidating. Anushka expresses, "He is not the kind of a person who will go out of the way to make you feel comfortable. I get intimated to work with Salman and there is no doubt about it. He is the same way with everyone and I really like this quality about him. He is very honest."

Anushka also spoke about the recent Censor Board- Udta Punjab controversy and said that there should not be restrictions on creativity.

Talking about the same, Anushka said, "I think there should be certification and not censorship and this is how the situation can get resolved. People are intelligent enough when they are called adults as they know what is right and wrong. Let's not think that they (adults) are foolish... They are not children."

She further added, "Creativity is all about thoughts. If you tell someone don't think this way or that way, then you will not be able to create something great, you have to give liberty. Everyone is working within means no one is abusing just like that."

The 28-year-old actress too had a tough time in clearing her debut home production film "NH 10" with the CBFC. "In case of 'NH 10' in Haryana every third word is a 'gaali' (abusive word or expletive) and we showed reality that is how they talk. And what was shown was within reasonable restriction. But 87 cuts on a film and it just passes with one cut..it shows it (CBFC) should change," Anushka said referring to the Udta Punjab row.

The CBFC granted an adult certificate to "NH-10" after effecting nine cuts in all. "Ours was not such a bad case. My brother saw "Udta Punjab" he said then for us (referring to NH-10) everything should have got passed," Anushka said.

"It was silly with the cuts that we were asked to do like reduce the hair pulling by 20 percent. We couldn't understand how can we do this. We had to push the release by a week and it was not cool, we did not let the film get diluted," she added.

(With inputs from PTI)