1. Why is that you turn a deaf ear to many of our questions?
Ans: I only answer what is worth answering.

2. Why don't you make movies for society's good?
Ans: I am not into social welfare. I am into self welfare. The Gaayam song is a great piece of work but if you zoom out and observe you will realize that when we constantly blame the system for not serving the people it escapes out attention that many times us people are worse than the system and that is because we are the ones who create it and conveniently forget about it.

3. Have you explored digital media to have revenue for your archives?
Ans: Worry about your own money.

4. Given an opportunity, would you live your life exactly the way you have up till now?
Ans: Every second of it.

5. Because of your quantity your work quality is suffering.
Ans: Thanks for the gyan.

6. I can read how your brain works.
Ans: Congrats. I have been trying to figure that out myself since long.

7. Please define luck.
Ans: Whatever it is, since it is not in our control by its very definition why waste time thinking about it?

8. Why the phrase 'good in parts' we want the whole film to be good.
Ans: I think I screamed myself hoarse answering variants of this questions. So here goes once again. No director, let alone me, would want to do a film which is good only in parts. By the time you finish it that's how it turns out. Unless you make a film yourself I guess your thick head won't understand this.

9. Do you believe in Che Guevara?
Ans: I don't know who he is?

10. Cool down. Dil pe mat le yaar.
Ans: Well' if you are so dumb that you didn't get the humour in my answer you deserve to watch Aag again.

11. Let Aag be. Let him be. Let us be.
Ans: Thanks for the trouble you have taken in writing that long piece defending my case.

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