When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.