New Delhi, Aug 24 - She earned rave reviews for her performance as a blind and deaf girl in the critically acclaimed 'Black', but 14-year-old Ayesha Kapoor says she wasn't able to relate to her character of a conservative Kashmiri girl in her latest film 'Sikandar'.

'It was hard for me to relate to my character in the film since I'm a completely different in real life. Nasreen, my character, is conservative. That's the opposite of me,' Ayesha told IANS.

'From a very young age, I have lived in an international community. My friends are from all over the world. I get to meet people from different cultures. That's made me quite modern. Also, I am half German, so my thinking is very different,' she added.

Directed by Piyush Jha, 'Sikandar' released Friday and has got mixed reviews. In the film, Ayesha plays protagonist Parzaan Dastur's best friend Nasreen.

Ayesha says another problem was that she isn't fluent in Hindi and had to really work on her dialogues. She had to do quite a lot of preparations to make her character look real in the movie, which also stars R. Madhavan and Sanjay Suri.

'We did quite a few preparations for me to get the hang of my character. I attended a workshop in Delhi. That time for me it was mainly working on the lines and also understanding how a Kashmiri school girl would walk and talk and how she wears her dupatta...all those nitty-gritties,' the young actress explained.

'Also to understand things better, I went to Kashmir a week earlier than the shooting schedule.