As a filmmaker, what kind of feature films do you like to make?
I like to make fantasies. They are my favourite genre. I read a lot of Amar Chitra Katha. I was very interested in Indian mythological stories. I know Mahabharata and Ramayana thoroughly. I never read novels, however.
What kind of films do you watch?
I watch all kinds of movies except horror.
Do you feel films have to have a message?
Of course. But you can't say every movie has to have a message.
All your father's films have messages?
Yes, they have. Sultan also has a message. When someone is in a place from where he can tell people to do good, he has to do it. The lyrics of every song of my Dad's have strong messages and people do follow them.
Like your father, are you also a spiritual person?
Yes, I am a spiritual person. I have taken up his school of spirituality but I have never had the chance to go to the Himalayas. Hopefully, I will go there some day.
Do you believe in God?
Of course, I do.
What's God to you? You said earlier that your father is like God to you...
You can interpret what I said in many ways. When you say call someone God, it is like saying that you love and believe in that person completely. My father is irreplaceable. That is why I said he is like God to me.
Also see: When the gods took a backseat
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