Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Kay Kay Menon are actors who don't need any introduction. It is this diverse set of actors that Sudhir Mishra has worked with in his 25 years of film making career so far. This is the reason why when one he had signed a relative newcomer like Neil Nitin Mukesh for his film 'Tera Kya Hoga Johny', quite a few eyebrows were raised.

"What impresses me most about Neil is that he isn't someone who is into acting-acting for camera. He just acts naturally without turning gimmicky at all," says Mishra who in the meanwhile has also worked with Irrfan Khan on 'Yeh Saali Zindagi' which would be released in February next year.

It isn't for the first time that Mishra is working with newcomers though. He also gave a break to Shiney Ahuja and Chitrangda Singh, another set of talented actors, while making 'Hazaron Khwaishen Aisi'. However, when it comes to Neil, he has quite a few positives to narrate.

"Neil has this brooding intensity coupled with vulnerability, a unique combination indeed, which makes him stand apart from the crowd," Sudhir continues to talk highly about his actor.

One wishes Sudhir Mishra's trust is justified when this film, which also stars Soha Ali Khan, Kay Kay Menon, Karan Nath, Vijay Maurya, Virendra Saxena and Makrand Deshpande, releases all over on 17th December.