India, Jan. 10 -- Having made his mark in Hindi cinema, actor Sharman Joshi is now stepping into Bengali films with his next project, Bhalobashar Morshum. Speaking about the experience, he says, "I really enjoyed working on the film. We have a week's schedule still left." Reflecting on the challenge of performing in a new language, the 46-year-old shares, "Bengali was completely foreign to me. I had both the English and Hindi versions of the script, so I used to read them together. The chief assistant director would sit with me before every scene, guiding me as I mouthed all my lines. I did it carefully, and even though I didn't speak the language, I was able to emote in it." Ask if he learned any Bengali in the process, and Sharman quips, "I'm not good with languages, so there will be a dubbing artist. In fact, even in Hindi films, I hardly remember my dialogues. A theatre director once taught me to forget everything I've done before starting a new project, to carry no baggage from earlier work. That's now become my practice." Alongside the Bengali film, Sharman is returning to his theatre roots this month. "I'm working on an English play that opens on January 25. It's the language I'm most comfortable in, although I've done only one English play before. The play explores stories about the challenges a language imposes and the dialogue between theatre and an actor leaving the medium, where theatre is represented by a woman," he explains....