Jackie Shroff is a cool customer. All that it took the actor to make up his mind about making it to Goa for IFFI was just one invite from the Directorate of Film Festivals. He had to undertake the long haul from London to get to Inox Panaji just in time to catch the end of Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film, "Antarmahal".

The widely acclaimed film has Jackie playing a debauched, heartless and power-crazed zamindar in 1870s Bengal. Although another actor has clearly dubbed his voice, he doesn't lose control over the role, pulling it off with great panache.

At the end of the screening, the jetlagged actor hit the sack in the evening itself. But trust him to wake up after 10 at night and after a quick shower rush to a festival party on the Cidade de Goa beach.

The bash was close to winding up but there were enough people to mob him for autographs and keepsake photographs.