It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.