“I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have bec...” — Juhi Chawla Quote

I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.

Our films tremendously influence people. But at the same time, no one goes to the cinema to listen to lectures, so if you have an interesting story, and if you can showcase it as a film, and its messages are good, then it's like an icing on the cake: it shall be a superhit. And if I get those kind of films, I'll definitely want to work on it.

There were a few models who used to stay close to my building. I used to admire them and tell my friends that I did. Those models told me get into modeling.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

Earlier, people used to just recognise me a little bit and say 'I feel I've met you somewhere' or 'Are you that guy who comes in... ' and then they won't remember the name.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.