Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

