I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.