I have worked twice with Mr Bachchan, happy with the way career shaping up: Jisshu

"I have done two films with Big B, I have worked with Tabu, worked with Deepika Padukone, Sushmita Sen. I don't believe whether someone is more hyped or less, let media and others split hair on such trivial matters," Jisshu told IBNS at the music launch of Arshinagar, Aparna Sen's upcoming film reinventing Romeo and Juliet.

"I thank all directors (for) the way they are using me as an actor. It is more important and great to be used as an actor which helps you go on a voyage for self-discovery. If you exert your mind as to who gets greater or lesser chances vis-a-vis you, that will only nibble at your creative space and inhibit you," Jisshu said.

  Enacting the role of Tybalt as Tayeb in Arshinagar, Jisshu readily agreed of his acting repertoire getting enriched with the association with personalities like Aparna Sen and Anjan Dutt and late Rituparno Ghosh to name a few.

  "Yes it is a dream come true to be part of a project of Rinadi (as Aparna Sen is called) whose films I watched while growing up. It is another learning phase for me as an actor who has to reinvent himself as demanded by the script and story. That is the biggest challenge for an actor," he said.

On the film being entirely verse-based, Jisshu avers how creative the whole process is where the start and end of your dialogue resonated with the words of the other characters as the whole conversation should follow a rhythmic style.

About changing contours from a righteous sleuth (Bomkesh Bakshi) to a contract criminal (Rajkahini) and now a grey shade character in Arshinagar which asks to hold a mirror to ourselves, Jisshu signed off: "I have replied that already. I am an actor."

  Aparna said, "Jisshu will set the screen on fire with his acting. But all the other members of cast from Dev to Shankar Chakroborty, from debutante Ritika essayed their roles with equal aplomb."

Produced by Sri Venkatesh Films Arshinagar will hit screens this Christmas.