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When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.

I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But...' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'

I am an Indian to the core.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

I'm very attracted to Indians.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.