I wanted to be part of something bigger

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.