I don’t have any guzaarish, I believe in karma. I believe that if you work hard enough, you get what you deserve to get. I am not the kind to plead or ask.

There are some tricks I can do but my children are too young to understand those. They cannot yet be surprised or shocked by them. I can take a playing card and make it disappear. I did that in Kites. In Kaho Na Pyar Hai also, I had pulled a rose out of my sleeve.

To begin with, it was my most challenging film but it also became my easiest film working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali. There was such fantastic guidance and so much love given – he really pampered us. It was a beautiful experience. Ethan has been confined for 14 years to the wheelchair and he never shows his suffering. The most challenging aspect of the role was to portray the depth of emotions that a man feels when he loses everything at a young age and he can’t even move a finger, he has no sensation. What happens then, it became my responsibility to portray the dignity with which quadriplegics live. Also to show the courage and hope they wake up with every morning.

It has brought smiles to my life. It taught me that it is possible to smile through all your problems. Every problem has a solution – that’s the lesson I learnt from my quadriplegic friends who I take care of and they take care of me. Listening to them talk about their lives`85 how they smile through everything`85 sitting with them for six hours and coming out to realise that I had been smiling and laughing throughout. Then I realised that they have the power to make me laugh. After that, how can I can go home and complain about less salt in food? It certainly changes your life it does.

Oh yes! You can’t complain that the fan is not working, the AC is making noises – these are such stupid, trivial things.

Working with Aishwarya is such a wonderful experience. It is nice to find a co-star, who shares your passion for films and your desire to achieve excellence through films. The two films we have worked in clearly shows our desire to make a great film. It is not a selfish sentiment.

She’s very sharp, oh yes, she is. But I am sharper, I never got caught.

It excites the audience to come and watch a film. But when you are starting a new film, it is not a hit jodi any more, you are resetting yourself to zero and giving it your best shot in order to create another hit film or hit jodi.

I remember watching Khamoshi at Chandan theatre in Mumbai with my friends. After the film, I just could not move, I was completely enthralled by it. But without any bias, I would say that Guzaarish is his best yet. As for the success and failure of a film – that is a different concept. But he has done full justice to his vision in every film.

I will be celebrating Diwali out of Mumbai as I have problems with the pollution here. My son has a bronchial condition, so I’d rather not be here. There will be a traditional pooja in the house. When I was a kid, I used to rejoice and buy 10,000 crackers but now as a parent I realise that it is very polluting to burst crackers.

I have just wrapped up Zoya Akhtar’s film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the next is Agneepath. The Krrish sequel is still on hold as dad is yet not completely satisfied with the story. He wants it to be an emotional journey.

They have been knocking at my door for some time, but I have not been excited by their offers so far.

(a long drawn sigh of pleasure) Pure genius! No one could have justified the music of the film as he has.

Like three is just not enough!

It is like describing nature with all its contrasting elements birth and death. Just like nature, the film is beyond judgment for me, beyond good and bad, it is just is what is --- the manifestation of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s vision. A beautiful dream.

100 gram zindagi ...