There’s a plethora of Indian actors who’ve migrated to the country from other lands and have been embraced with open arms, even being plunged into the heights of superstardom. But then there are also a few like Imran Khan, an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), who, though born in the US, has spent most of his life in India, but faces a diktat to leave the country for participating in the recent Mumbai protests. Elnaaz Norouzi, born in Iran, raised in Germany, and who now lives and works in India, admits she feels like a headless chicken, although she sees herself as an “Iranian-German-Indian” , or quite simply, a “global citizen”.

Elnaaz Norouzi on the perils of belonging

“Most of my life, I’ve felt like I don’t belong. And that’ll happen with anybody who doesn’t live in the country they’re born in. That’s natural,” Elnaaz tells SCREEN in an exclusive interview.…