Where are the camps? I have lived in the industry for 38 years. Am I going camping? This is ridiculous. We all work together as one industry.

I have always propagated that if there's one force in this country that is truly integrating our country, it is the film industry. Where else do you find this free, secular liberal integration? Why do we need to separate them?

Have you thought of it as your own fiefdom?

Impossible! The days of the British Raj are over. There is no kingdom. It's a free, liberal, democratic country. We live in a free, liberal society. Politicians talk about it, intellectuals think about it, the media write about it, but we practice it.

Many people were upset when you didn't invite them to Abhishek and Ash's wedding. Some, like Shatrughan Sinha, returned the sweets. Did you feel let down by their reaction?

No. It is now almost four months since they married. They are two young, consenting adults who got together in holy matrimony, with the blessings of elders, and feel that we should leave them alone.

Day after day, to question this liaison -- for what reason and cause? We need to leave them alone to lead their lives. It was a very difficult decision for us to take.

My mother has been lying critically ill in hospital for one year. It's not easy to go there every day -- she cannot see, speak, hear, or eat. She is fed through a tube in the stomach.

She just breathes. It's tormenting for a son to keep talking to her without any response. How would you feel if you were in a similar situation where you come out of hospital, return home and start singing and dancing as your son is getting married?

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