What is the reason for you to produce a film like Hide n Seek?
It is really because of Shawn Arranha. I had no intention of ever producing a film. I don’t know if I’ll do it again. He has been with me for ten years now. Even when I was an assistant, he used to be my assistant. Then when I turned director, he still was my chief assistant director. I’ve used him and abused him (laughs). I like promoting new talents and it was the right time for me to launch Shawn as I didn’t want him to assist no more. So how did the locked shopping mall idea came about? The way the story came about was very interesting. We were in this mall in Johannesburg in South Africa. I and my friends had gone for a recce of my film and we went to watch the 11.15 pm show at the biggest mall in South Africa. So after the film finished, I went into the wash room and was locked in. It was the spookiest feeling because not a single person was there in the mall when we were locked in. There was no music too. But I and my friends were still joking that if we were to be locked up ins
