The film's set against a medical backdrop. Why is that?

My script, the story suited the medical profession the best. The situations, my characters - everything just gelled perfectly. Besides, it's been a long time since a film was set in a hospital. You have the regular industrialists' families and business tycoons - I didn't want that in my film.

It's a love triangle between Anil Kapoor-Preity Zinta and Gracy Singh.

Yes, though I would call it more a story of relationships between these three people. There is also the father-son relationship between Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor that I'm exploring. Both Amitji and Anil play doctors who share a dream of running a state-of-the-art hospital but certain circumstances arise which lend to the drama of the film.

The only problem is to shoot the scenes in 100 per cent silence and maintaining that is quite tough but in the long run, it's beneficial. There are no hassles of dubbing and the artistes too are completely focused on the scene. Even they are spared of undergoing that right emotion, the perfect feeling again while dubbing. I'm quite happy with this system.

Yes (laughs). They all give the entire unit hell. The reason I have more women assistants and no offence meant to men is because they are faster, they can see more details than men and they are organised. They really get the work done well and faster. In fact, my first assistant is a girl who assisted my daughter Zoya during Farhan's Dil Chahta Hai. I know how they work and I'm happy to have a team, which is on the ball. (Laughs) Though I keep telling them that one of these days, a crane is going to fall on our heads and the men on this set are going to do that!

(Smiles) Yes, that I'm a very cool person. I just didn't think I had it in me to tackle so many people on my set and so many departments. Direction is tough as earlier I just gave my script to the director and forgot about it. But while directing Armaan, I have to look into every aspect of filmmaking but I guess I'm doing just fine. I'm even enjoying it.

Has Javed Akhtar contributed to the film?

Yes, in the dialogues department. He's even helped me with the screenplay. Javed was a great help primarily because he is a writer himself and he could see more nuances in the script than I could probably see. His contribution has really been valuable.

Farhan will soon start his second film and your daughter Zoya too is planning a film…

Yes, Farhan's film gets rolling early next year while Zoya's the year after that. So you see there are more writers and directors in the family now. I think very soon we all are going to start hiding our scripts from each other (laughs uproariously).

(Just then Rakesh Roshan calls on her cell and the two fix up a date to watch the rushes of Koi Mil Gaya. After she hangs up, she is delighted to hear from Roshan that the film has shaped up well).

(Laughs) Yes, two films next year and no film after that.

— INFS