How do you manage your schedules, especially while working in both Tamil and Telugu?

Right now I don’t sign too many films. I only sign two films at a time and so it is quite easy to manage. And I work for 20 -22 days a month so this way I always have some free days in case someone meets and wants to finish any backlogs. I don’t work like before and am very choosy about films these days. In fact I haven’t signed anything new as of now. I have put everything on hold for the time being and am waiting for something exciting, a film that gives me a really good character. So it is always easy to manage and I have got used to working in both the languages and divide my time equally between Chennai and Hyderabad.

Why a remake of a Hindi film?

Why does someone make a film based on epics like ‘Ramayana’ and ‘The Mahabharata’? I mean just about everybody knows the storyline isn’t it? Even in English, Shakespeare’s plays were made into films over and over again and even then whenever a Shakespeare’s play is made into a film with new actors there are stores all over in the media about the film. Even take the case of a comedian. The same joke cracked by a different comedian gives it a different momentum altogether. Similarly, it is the case with this film. It is all a question of interpretation and ‘A Wednesday’ was a small film that went on to be a big film. See, even True Lies (a popular English film) was a remake of a French film. If the producers thought that it isn’t worth to remake it they wouldn’t have done it right? In that case it would have been confined to the French audiences only. See, everybody may not be as informed as the media, but ‘A Wednesday’ being a great film that it is was appreciated by the Hindi audience and we want to present a film of such quality to the Tamil and Telugu audiences as well.