Remakes are tricky and I wanted to approach 'Nerkonda Paarvai' as a fresh film. Taapsee and I are different people. Naturally, our understanding of characters won't be the same. Further, I didn't want to be influenced by her performance and I like it that way.

The West has a better understanding of what the word sexual abuse or harassment means. There are some concepts that they understand way better.

With theatre, I found that one thing that I am good at and it gave me so much confidence. I feel like I have found my calling and that's how films happened to me as well.

The old school mentality has gone and paved the way for many educated women to enter the movie profession.

A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.