You are both an actor and a director. What would you like to be known as, and, which one of the two is more satisfying?
I would like to be known both as an actor and a director. Because I love to be both an actor and a director.
What is your view about offbeat films, particularly in context of Nishabd?
I liked Nishabd very much. Personally speaking, I don’t consider films as offbeat or otherwise, what you call as mainstream ones.
Will you call Nishabd a ‘daring’ movie?
It was an unconventional film.
You have directed a movie with Salman Khan as an actor. How was the experience of directing Salman?
It was very good. Salman is a very good human being. He is a very co-operative actor.
Do you think that women make better directors than men?
I don’t believe in that. In my opinion, it does not make any difference, if the director is a man or a woman.
Kamala Das is a prominent literary figure of Kerala. Do you have any plans of making a movie on her?
I have not thought about it, yet.
How was your experience of Mitr, My Friend? Why did the movie have only women as the crew?
Mitr just happened to be a film by an all-women crew. Though it was an attempt to encourage women technicians, we never planned to have an all women crew. Once we got everybody we realised that we have all the women.
How was it working with Amitabh Bachchan, an actor who enjoys iconic status in Bollywood?
I did not get this feeling that I am working with an actor with an iconic status. I enjoyed working with him. One thing, I learned from him is that, even after working for so many years, his intensity of work is great. He still puts in that effort (required by a particular role).
