When congratulated on her recently released film Red Swastik directed by Vinod Pandey, Sherlyn says that she has learnt the biggest lesson in life after working with Vinod Pandey in the film. “Good roles are not enough for an upcoming actor. It is very necessary to work with aggressive filmmakers who know how to promote their films. When I asked Vinod why Red Swastik was not being released in multiplexes, he passed on the buck to the distributors who he said did not book the multiplexes. Though I wanted him to place my name as Sherlyn, he adamantly chose to give me the name Menka Chopra in the film, because he has this bizarre obsession with the name Menka”.
Sherlyn says that she now realises why Shiney Ahuja had sarcastically said “All The Best”!to her when she had told him that she was working in Vinod Pandey in his film. “Like me, Shiney also was given a raw deal by Vinod when he had cast him in his film Sins before his Hazaar Khwaishein Aisi was released. An actor gives his or best to the director. In return, what does he or she get? The director gives false hopes and plays with an individual’s feelings”.
Sherlyn asserts. “I will never again work with a filmmaker like Vinod Pandey. I am ashamed that I had to mouth my dialogues like a seductress. Vinod wanted me to overact all the time. Can’t you seduce without nakhras? At 22, when I can understand, why can’t Vinod pandey who is a veteran in this industry understand what the difference between real and fake is?”
Sherlyn has had four releases earlier before Red Swastik. They were A Film By Aravind (Telugu), Time Pass, Naughty Boys and Game. Sherlyn confesses that she is unhappy with all her Hindi releases till date including Red Swastik. “I have always been an A grade school topper and also No 1 in all the church activities. Look at myself now. I am a failure. I go to bed with tears every day. I suppose that is the price, which I have had to pay for being naive and stupid”.
Sherlyn confesses that it was immature on her part to have sent a legal notice to a leading evening newspaper in Mumbai when it wrote something negative about her. "If the media can write negative things about Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, who am I? I realised my serious mistake. I had to pay the price for blindly trusting my P.R.O,  who instead of advising me to take the whole thing with a pinch of salt provoked me to send the legal notice to Mid-Day.”
 Sherlyn hates being compared to Mallika Sherawat just because she is bold enough to flaunt her figure in revealing clothes. “I respect Mallika because she is a fighter, but I am not trying to be another Mallika Sherawat because I am not limiting my acting abilities. I want to do roles with all shades. I do not keep track of my kissing scenes in films, whether I have done 17, 24 or for that matter 30 kisses.”
Sherlyn has decided not to take things lying down in the industry. “I want to set up a huge studio model after establishing myself as an actor here in Bollywood and change the face of Bollywood. I believe that true success is when you lead your life on your own terms and do films which you truly believe in.”