anjali menon comes across as a sweet softspoken person punctuating every sentence with laughter when you talk to her but then her views are razor sharp when it comes to films and filmmaking and the much discussed issue of gender in cinema what matters is the work people do and not their gender is what she would like to tell the world through her success as anjalis new film after bangalore days titled koode is set to release in july we ask her about the new film her views on cinema and more we dont know much about your new film koode except that it has nazriya prithviraj and parvathy in the lead rolesmy films have always been about relationships and koode will explore family relationships it is about the good the bad and the realistic in families the beauty is often in the little nuggets that we miss it will be high on the emotional quotient along with music humour and a bit of everything else as well we had a lovely fun and cordial atmosphere on the set and i think people will be surprised by the actors in the film the film is set in the nilgiris and the middle east and we found some really quaint locations which have never been discovered people might expect another bangalore days from you if i wanted to do bangalore days again i would have accepted the many offers to direct its hindi remake that came to me if i had done the same thing after manjadikkuru there wouldnt be an ustad hotel or later bangalore days i would rather move on and do something different every time bangalore days was made at a time when many of us were turning corners in careers and life it was really special also i was taken aback by the number of wishes and the amount of good will i received a few days ago on the fourth anniversary of bangalore daysthis time you have a new combination parvathy and prithvirajyes what was really nice was that i had around me many people who had worked with me before that brings a nice comfort level i had worked with prithvi for manjadikkuru nazriya and parvathy for bangalore days ranjithji was my producer in kerala caf prithvi and parvathy have worked together but not on my set the dynamics here are usually different ours is always an informal lateral set there is only limited hierarchy here prithviraj had spoken about nazriya being like his little sister in real life tooit was important for them to have a certain kind of comfort level the film was taking time so we started off with a small messaging group among us constantly sending each other stuff they joined forces in pulling my leg and a bond was struck there the day i introduced the two of them it was clear to me that ok this is going to work they just took over from there and