Mumbai: Film-maker Satish Kaushik has all the reasons in the world to celebrate for he has garnered some glowing reviews for his acting in the British film Brick Lane.

Based on Monica Ali's critically acclaimed novel by the same name, Kaushik plays Chanu Ahmed, a Bangladeshi immigrant based in London, one of the lead protagonists of the film.

The novelist herself has confessed to being extremely satisfied with Kaushik's portrayal, as the man excitedly reveals.

"Monica Ali, you know, when she wrote in her article in Guardian that Satish Kaushik's performance was really astonishing and 'a slightly unnerving experience because it looked liked my character just walked out of the page'," he said, with a grin.

"To get such a reaction from the author! Because writers are very wary, you know, if their characters are being portrayed in the right spirit or not."

Satish, who is a trained actor himself from Delhi's National School Of Drama, says this experience was quite new for him and an eye-opener too.

"I had a diction teacher, an English diction teacher, then I had a Bangladeshi accent teacher, then the costumes designer, everyday, was trying to do something. Like, in make up, Christian Palmer did lot of things with my hair to get the patches right, the way they wanted," he said, gesticulating.

"So, it is very detailed work. Once you are on the set, you don't waste time because your homework has been done before. That detailing makes it different from what we do here (in Bollywood)," he explained.

Satish Kaushik hopes to make that difference in his next directorial release, Tere Sang which deals with teenage pregnancy.