I didn't really speak about my role in Murder 2 . It's the same with .

It's the same with Rajat Mukherjee's Rave . This is Rajat's debut movie and it is inspired by the rave party incident in Pune that hit headlines some years back.

I am playing the lead in the film. My character is a small town girl who gets into drugs once she explores life in a big city.

While some portions of the movie were shot in Pune, the rest of the film was shot in Mumbai. Before doing this role, how did you prepare yourself? Smoking, drinking or doing drugs are strict no-nos for me.

An acquaintance of mine had died after she had taken to drugs. I want youngsters to say no to drugs.

When we had workshops with Aparna Malhotra (actor Pawan Malhotra's wife), I would be teased about needing to get a taste of things to understand my character better. But I'd simply smile and say if one doesn't need to murder someone to play a murderer, why would I need to drink or do drugs to play this role? We did a lot of research for this movie.

I saw documentaries on drug abuse as well. I came to know about drugs that can make one completely immobile.

Then, there are those drugs that make you see images of gods and goddesses! It was a whole new world for me. Rave will be an eye-opener and a revelation for many.

How was your shooting experience? Apart from me, the film has Rajkumar Yadav. He did Love, Sex Aur Dhokha and was seen in Ragini MMS .

In Rave , he is playing a DJ. Most of my scenes are with him.

Apart from that, there is Divyendu Sharma, who did Pyaar Ka Punchnama . Both Rajkumar and Dibyendu are from FTII and are fabulous actors.

Shooting for the movie was fun, especially since there were many members from Odisha in the crew. Whenever we got together, we would start speaking in Odia.

And the rest of the unit would tease us, saying, " Phir se shuru ho gaya tumhari gaon gaon batein!' Do you know that there is another film based on a rave party called 'Disco Valley' that has Shahzahn Padamsee, Rajat Barmecha and features a pig as a protagonist? I had no idea. But then, there is no comparison between Rave and this movie.

Besides, there were three Bhagat Singh films made in Bollywood and each was different from the other. Rave is a movie that both parents and youngsters need to watch it to understand the ill-effects of peer pressure.

You've done a Tamil film and haven't yet acted in an Odia movie. Why is that? Have you ever watched an Odia movie? No, I haven't watched an Odia movie yet.

But then, I love my state and its culture. I have been getting Odia movie offers.

In fact, there was an offer to do an Anubhav Mohanty film too. But my dates never worked out.

Besides if I do an Odia film, it has to be something that I am really kicked about. I wouldn't be that keen to do a remake.

Though I have never really stayed in Odisha, I can speak the language fluently. My dada dadi live in Bhubaneswar.

My nana nani stay in Berhampore. If I ever do an Odia film, it ought to be more arty than commercial.

Being in Bollywood, do you have any dos and don'ts? Be it television or Bollywood, I have always wanted to do diverse roles. In Amber Dhara , I played the character of Dhara in a serial based on the story of conjoined twins.

In Do Saheliyaan , which was loosely adapted from Tagore's Noukadubi , I played a Rajput girl. In Bidaai , I played a character with grey shades.

In Murder 2, I played a 16-year-old college girl who gets exploited. Rave offers me a completely different character.

In my Tamil film Isai , I play a village girl who falls in love with a composer. If my role is such that I have to crawl up a tunnel infested with rats, I will do it.

Both my parents and I are clear that what I play on screen is not what I am in real life. My grandparents are more liberal than my parents.

I will do anything that the script demands as long as it is not cheesy or done just to entice the audience to go to the theatres. Is television a strict no-no for you now? Among the actors who made a transition from the small to the big screen, who do you find inspiring? There is nothing like a strict no-no thing.

I am enjoying doing movies and I will continue to do so. I seek inspiration from the journeys of Vidya Balan , Prachi Desai and Shah Rukh Khan (less)