Rahul Kanwal, Executive Editor, Headlines Today caught up with Abhay Deol and Kangana Ranaut in an honest rapid-fire round of questions and answers revolving around the subject, Can you be a superstar without being an actor? Both Abhay Deol and Kangana answered in the negative saying that it was indeed important to have talent in order to succeed in Bollywood.

Abhay Deol said that Bollywood as an industry is evolving in terms of being media savvy to bigger budgets to easier access to the world in the form of internet and foreign investors, making it difficult for a star to get away with no talent. Kanagana on the other hand said "we have different" superstars. "Does one need to know how to act to be a star? Art is subjective, what one person might like the other might not...acting is a skill stardom is a phenomenon."

Ranaut also talked about artists being undervalued in the country. "I want to be a star because I want to make money as well," she confessed. Deol on the other hand had a different perspective when he said despite growing up in the film industry he was not fascinated by the starry phenomenon of it. "I want to stay away from people who stay with you because you do well. I also don't chase the media for the same reason. I wanted to strike a balance. If it's not me naturally, then I don't want to be a star."

Although he did confess later about eventually experimenting with main stream cinema as well. Ranaut talked about the fallacies of fame, "sometimes your stardom overshadows everything." And both agreed on the fact that one could always work on their acting while being a star.