How was Amrita Rao chosen? How challenging was it to direct someone who does not know the language?
I had seen her films and liked her performances. I felt she was apt for the role and had the ‘native’ look I wanted. She is a thorough professional. She was good with the dialogues and would even learn a page and repeat it correctly without interspersing any Hindi in it. She was very good in grasping. She would do the scenes in just one or two takes. In fact even Mahesh complimented her on her performance and said she was the best actress he has acted with. Why did you give Ashish Vidyaarthi a ‘hip-hop’ appearance in the film? His character is one of a drug addict in Delhi, so I designed the appearance accordingly. Why is there so much violence in the film? I haven’t shown violence in a vulgar way. I felt it was necessary in the climax as the character Mahesh plays was so helpless that he had to be violent in the end. I came to know that the theatres have chopped off some of the violent bits towards the end without our permission. Since they have done it for the audience, I have not ta
