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

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.