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I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies. ”
Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution. ”
In a democratic party, where internal democracy is alive, there are bound to be different views. ”
No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking. ”
If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that. ”
I had to take a break to set up my production company. Managing a production house is a different ballgame. It's not like signing a film and arriving on the set. ”
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters. ”
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book. ”
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough. ”
I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right. ”