You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.