"I knew 'Queen' is a special film, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would get me an award from the government of the country." It was our friend the actress Kangana Ranaut, sharing her delight at winning her industry's most coveted award this year, the National Award for best actress, for her work in 'Queen'.

"For a mountain girl from a remote Himalayan valley, it's a journey of a thousand miles. I am overwhelmed," said the two times National Awards winner (she'd won it for Best Supporting actress in 2008 for 'Fashion'). And what will be her day like, we enquired of the actress whose inscrutable persona of childlike naivete, imbued with a old-world melancholia, have made her something of an enigma in a cookie cutter industry.