I love working with newcomers.
With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.
My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.
'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.
The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.
India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.
We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
'Dhoka,' I think, is not just meant for Pakistan and India but for South Asia.
Yes, whatever is born, dies, but I thank life for gifting us a Nelson Mandela. He will sparkle in our consciousness for times to come.
I don't think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.
I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.
I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.
My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
Films have to appeal to youngsters - it has to have tamasha, drama, and sensationalism.
