Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person. In fact, Ajay (Devgn) thinks I speak too much.

So, obviously these allegations are possibly made by those who haven't met me at all. But you do have this, let's say fetish.

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for remaining silent on controversial topics It's not a fetish. I just steer clear of controversies as much as possible.

I don't think I am doing anything wrong. I don't believe in doing anything wrong, I am not rebellious by nature, and I am a well-brought up guy who believes in doing the right thing.

So, it's not a fetish, I'd like to believe I am well-brought up. My mom still fires me (laughs) but well, that happens, I guess.

For someone serious, moody, how does comedy happen? Moody? Am I moody? Broody? Am I? (He looks around and asks everyone) Hey, you, ma'am! (He calls out to someone) Did you think I am moody? I came across as serious? (a tentative, affirmative nod follows) I am starting to worry now. Am I that bad an actor that you are beginning to see me as 'serious'? Here I am, trying to be all friendly and chirpy and you are like, 'You're moody'.

I like to have fun, I enjoy what I do. Talking of pro-active, a lot has been made out of your 'newfound friendship' with Salman Khan.

Like you both hugged, etc..

. See, these are all created stories, because the media doesn't have anything else to write about.

That's right, turn the tables on us. No, Salman is a senior of mine, somebody I've had a lot of respect for.

He's always been sweet to me and supportive, and very sporting. And the feeling is absolutely mutual and always has been.

You're a great lover of sports..

. Oh, yes.

I love football. Much had happened over sending or rather not sending Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes to the Olympics.

But coming from an industry where 'chemistry' with the co-star matters so much, do you have an opinion? I don't think we can draw that parallel. They are completely different things.

When you are going to the Olympics, you are talking about representing the nation. And this is purely my opinion, I believe I would keep the nation ahead of everything and everyone else.

But at the end of the day, you see, we don't know what the true picture is, what the story is. So we can only sit in the sidelines and pass comments, which is not correct.

Coming to films, such considerations have got nothing to do with it. I am not making a film of national importance, where a nation's pride is involved or anything like that.

It's a different setup. I personally, would not be okay to working with someone I am not comfortable with.

It will inhibit me as an actor. I clam up.

But don't clam up over this one - the whole world seems to be weighed in with your wife's post-pregnancy weight! Every ounce is monitored! Stressed? There's no strain, no stress. My wife is not bothered about these things at all, and nor am I.

Like she says, the negativity that was started by a newspaper, and then led to everybody being bothered about it, is a drop in the ocean of all the positivity and love that has come into our lives. So, it's really water off the duck's back.

My personal opinion is nobody's business, to be honest. But if I say that, I come across as arrogant, and now, moody.

And you all will make it a big headline saying that Abhishek is saying this. But there is a reason.

She's a woman, and she's a mother on top of that, and I don't talk like that about women at all. And I don't appreciate people talking about any woman like that.

I don't think that's correct at all. She's had a baby, let her do what she wants to do, let her enjoy this phase.

Are we that shallow a society or have we become that shallow that we are talking about the weight of a person who's just given birth? But unfortunately what I say is not going to matter because nobody pays any heed to it. Star family, the nation's darlings and all that, maybe.

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Thank you. But we don't see ourselves as all that.

We look upon ourselves as just a family. When I go home, I spend time with my mom, my dad, my wife, my daughter.

And we're just happy being with ourselves, and we don't really allow us to get affected by all this. Absolutely no strain, there really isn't.

When do we actually get to see Aaradhya? She must be the most mysterious person in India today. I find this a bit weird, I understand this is a way of everybody expressing their love, but I am not too sure about how I feel about it.

I am a bit uncomfortable. I don't think she's an item to be put on display and I don't think that's the way a child should be treated.

I understand and respect the fact that in my family, both my parents and my wife and I are public figures, but I am definitely a bit uncomfortable with putting my child up for display like that - she's just nine months old and I don't want to do this. But she will have to face this one day.

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Yes, true. But Aishwarya and I would like to bring her up as normally as possible.

By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing.

We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing. I don't know how to word it, but this current situation, I find it a little weird.

Looking through the father's eye - who does Aaradhya look like? Again, this is weird - but I go on a promotional tour, I come back and her face has changed. And I am being told that for the first year or two, her face is going to keep changing.

So, right now, I think it is evenly balanced. I don't know how good or bad a thing that is, because I am sure we all want her to look like her mom.

I mean looking like this (he points to his face, and laughs) would be a bit scary for a girl (less)