Since I'm serious about a career in Hindi films, I'd have relocate to Mumbai.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

We have always wanted to give back to cinema, and we couldn't possibly think of a better way to do that than facilitate films which we believe will make Malayalam cinema proud.

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.