Censorship is a stupid thing. There should be certification, and not censorship. People are smart enough to understand that if a film is meant for kids, then kids will watch it and if a film is meant for adults, only adults will watch it.
Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.
I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.
'Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives.
I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.
