Bad man Gulshan Grover seems to be turning over a new leaf. In "The Hangman", he plays an out-and-out positive character. On a scribble board in the foyer of Inox multiplex, he wrote: "I am happy that 'The Hangman' has brought me to IFFI."

Indeed, Grover, despite having been in the industry for well over two decades, had never been to India's annual film festival.

"I had never been invited," he laments. "Nobody gives me my due at home. I seem to be in greater demand on the international film festival circuit," he adds tongue firmly in cheek.

It is clear that he is happy to be in Goa for the film festival, but there isn't much love lost between him and the organizers.