First of all, I'd thank the whole team for giving us all this amazing opportunity to work on a project of this calibre. This level of animation is something we haven't seen in India yet, and no matter how hard we try, it will definitely take a while to catch up with it. It's a difficult art form, a difficult cinema form. These films are wrongly considered for kids. The astronomical costs involved need them to be viable options to every segment of the masses in order to be profitable. And that means universalising its appeal.

I'd also like to thank them for giving my son a job (laughs), and his first paycheck. He couldn't be here today, he's washing his dog - he's got a new dog, and he's named him after his own character (Aryan plays Tez) in the English version of the film, Dash, my favourite character from the film as well. I'm just praying that the film does as well here as it has abroad.

Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar