Delnaaz Irani is playing a Parsi character for the first time on the big screen in Milind Ukey's Monsoon Football. The actor had kept herself away from taking on such roles as "they ended up being caricatures."

She broke her self-imposed rule "as it is a meaty role and not just a comic element," says the actor, who is best remembered as Sweety in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003).