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.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

Love just happens, you know.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.