India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

Love is a beautiful feeling.

I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.

Actors are limited by their appearance and while it has cost me some roles, it has got me some very important roles too.

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.