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

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

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

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

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.

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.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.