Second beginning for Harsh Chhaya

After the success of Fashion, Harsh Chhaya gets an opportunity to opt for better roles than before. PT catches the actor for a t��te-��-t��te
Is Fashion getting you the offers of your choice?
Fashion did help me get noticed. Today, I am happy with the offers coming my way. I wouldn���t say that I am being flooded by offers, but the roles are certainly better than what used to be.
So, what are the films that you can boast of post Fashion?
I���m doing Arindam Nandy���s next and I was also supposed to do Prakash Jha���s Rajneeti.
What happened to Rajneeti?
My Rajneeti dates were clashing with Arindam���s schedule, so I had to let go of the project. I would have loved to be a part of Prakash Jha���s film as I had the opportunity to push myself as an actor in a completely different part again. It���s a pity that I couldn���t do Rajneeti.
How did the Nandy film come by?
I met Arindam last year. He was busy with Via Darjeeling then. We kept in touch and I had expressed a desire of working with him. It so happened that he had a script that I could be a part of. I liked the script and that���s how things fell in place. Post Fashion, this film on relationships is the best that I���ve had.
We sure need to mention about your international project...
The movie will be produced by people in the US and it will have one foreign actor. But the director, Umesh Padalkar and the remaining actors are all Indian. The film is about international terrorism, but not the guns and bombs kind. It���s about how money is siphoned for terrorist activities. I play a Palestinian.
How are you researching for the character?
The writer of the story himself felt I was the right guy for the part. As for the Palestinian diction in the English film, I have been sent tapes and CDs to pick up the accent.
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