Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

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

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

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.