India, July 6 -- Boman Irani made his directorial debut this year with The Mehta Boys. Post that, he appeared in Detective Sherdil last where he teamed up with Sumeet Vyas, an actor-director too. And in his next, Tanvi The Great, he is working with actor Anupam Kher in his directorial return.

Ask Boman Irani what it is that actors bring in extra when they take up the director's chair and he says, "I genuinely feel that if an actor feels that he's an actor-director and he becomes an actor's director, I think that's a problem. There's no need to tell actors how to act."

Elaborating further, he states, "An actor only understands drama, so an actor-turned-director does not necessarily have to go and tell an actor how to act. He just needs t...