Mumbai: Actor Naseeruddin Shah is out with yet another international film project and after years giving in one great performance after another, he has suddenly stepped into retirement mode.

"I am not looking for great roles. I am not looking to give great performances anymore. I think I have done my bit. I don't feel I have achieved perfection of course, but I feel pretty fulfilled with the work that I have done so far and am grateful," says he.

It almost sounds like a retirement plan for the veteran actor. After acting in some 150 films in the last three decades, Naseer wants to look for only those films that go with his beliefs.

And his new film, Shoot On Sight is exactly that. Directed by Jagmohan Mundhra, the film centres around Scotland Yard's Muslim police officer, Tariq Ali played by Naseeruddin Shah.

The movie talks about the character's struggle with his Muslim identity in post 7/11 London, where Islamo-phobia and Islamic extremism are on the rise. But Naseer says he is lucky that it has never happened with him in India.

"My identity as a Muslim never ever bothered to me. I was rudely reminded of it when Gujarat riots happened and when Babri Masjid happened, but I can't say that it affected my life or my work prospect in anyway. Not at all," says he.

The film also stars Om Puri, British actor Brian Cox and Laila Rouass in lead roles. It has been shot completely in London in all of 45 days and is expected to release in India by march 2008.

But for those of you who liked Yun Hota To Kya Hota, there is some bad news from the director Naseer.

"I am done with film direction. Firstly, I don't think I am a good filmmaker. It is too hurried a job, too strenuous a job for me. So probably not. Besides making a film is very big gamble, not to say racket," says he.

Well, he was the oldest débutante director at 57 and the audiences would love to see him playing the gamble again.