Three years ago, the concept of making an English film that could make money didn't exist. The only example is English August which was a good film but didn't make any money. People thought it's happening. But we had no money. I was actually raising money while making the film.
Films do take a long time getting made, especially if they are labours of love.
Here, everyone laughed. Also, because it's an English film in Hindi, in many ways. It was made for a pittance compared to Hindi films. For the cost of one Hindi film song I made the whole feature film, including paying Naseeruddin Shah, Roshan Seth, Naveen Andrews, all of them star quality, really expensive people. It's a masala film.