By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood

