Scarlett & Rahul to meet

The ���thinkingactor��� tells us that he has ���six speaking engagements over 12 daysin America���. For one, he���s there for ���three fund-raisers forPratham, the NGO that works for the education of children. A university therehas invited me to speak about my experiences as an actor, a sportsperson and asocial activist,��� he says. ���I���m also a global ambassador for Oxfam. So, on the same trip, Oxfam is having an assemblage of all their global ambassadors. There���ll be Scarlett Johansson, Annie Lennox, Desmond Hounsou from Blood Diamond, Gael Garcia Bernal and I... We���re all going to be together. We are going to be talking about the millennium development goals and how our various places in the world are far behind in attaining those goals. So that���s new.���Now, that���snot just new, that���s impressive. But Rahul���s doing impressivethings, and not just abroad. On home ground, his NGO is taking up a newinitiative, and on the personal front, Rahul���s going to be training for arugby tournament coming up in February. ���My NGO���s next initiative isfor the victims of child sexual abuse. In a year from now, the foundation isgoing to be the one place in the country where the victim of sexual abuse canwalk in and get legal, financial, medical and physiological help,��� hesays.However, participating actively in social developmentinitiatives and rugby hasn���t done anything to lessen Rahul���senjoyment of, or involvement in, cinema. He���s been doing movies acrossgenres, and despite his failures, is looking to enter new ground. ���Idon���t think I was good enough in ,��� he says candidly. ���I think it���simportant to take responsibility for the lack of appreciation of that film as anactor. That���s new too, because it���s not something I���m used to.A film with Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon and Pawan Malhotra should have been ahappy release at the Box Office. It is not my intention to do one more suchcomedy in my life.���He also has no intention of doing anotheraction movie... after he does his first and only one. ���I���m lookingat an action film because I have five world cinema films coming up. In, I have a cameo, thenthere���s , whichis coming after its success in the US and the UK, The Japanese Wife, the Bengalifilm called and TheWhisperers. So because I���m doing these very out-of-the-box movies, I optedfor an action film. I���ve never done one. But after playing rugby for 25years, I guess the time is right. I���m looking at doing one next year inMarch.���