Dia Mirza is finally looking for meaningful roles and wants to portray herself as a quality actor. Her role in Shoot Out At Lokhandwala is all deglamorised where she plays a news reporter based on Mintty Tejpal, who covered the real encounter in Lokhandwala 20 years ago. And she is sure winning rave reviews for the role that she carried off with a great ease. So how does she think her career will go from here? ‘I’m trying’ It is Dia’s first film sans all make-up. “Shoot Out At Lokhandwala is the kind of cinema I believe in. I play a serious, socially aware woman who doesn’t want to attract attention to her physicality. She’s a woman in a man’s world, so she wants her work to be the focus of her personality. Unfortunately, we actors cannot hope for such invisibility in our profession. But I’m trying.” Next she features is Sanjay Gupta’s movie Alibaug, which is a piece of the director’s life. “A lot of the situations are from the director’s own life. That element of realism has crept into my life. I need to sharpen my skills in that particular form of acting. And so, New York, here I come. I’m off to New York to do a seven-day workshop in acting at the New York University. It’s very important for every actor to renew and refurbish one’s skills,” says Dia. Dia takes off to New York to attend a seven days acting workshop. Great going Dia!