are the little things that removes the overwhelming aspect of the job and makes the entire process worthwhilemaking a film is easier than writing a booki am so open to everything and the beauty of the profession is that you dont know what the next opportunity will be somebody asked me to do a history of kannada cinema in five minutes that was really challenging to condense so much into so little time then there are documentaries and writing though i feel writing a book is a long process too tiring i feel making a film is much easier but the kind of success for a book is also great i never knew that the book would have six editions of reprints in five months which they say is a record so now the publishers have been asking me to write one more book next year so lets see whatever excites me for instance there are so many stories that i want to make films on or ideas that you may have put together for a tv series so many of these could make interesting booksit is a series of films that drew attention to kannada cinema and that made an impact in 2022it is not that the films made here were less in anyway before it just happens at some point that one industry attracts national attention it has happened for malayalam films at one point for tamil films at another point and it happened to kannada after the pandemic because of kgf kantara and 777 charlie so many of these films that came one after the other tends to make that kind of an impact one swallow does not make a summer likewise one film does not help make that kind of an impact nationally it is a series of films that drew attention and that has made that impact so much so that today if two calls come in at a film studio in mumbai and if one of them says i am from bengaluru that person will probably be given the first meeting opportunity because of that impact today the whole place gets more attentionthe 100 cr club or a pan indian film are interesting coinagesit is interesting to see this coinage such as a pan indian film there are these words now that people latch on to for instance the 100 cr club wow that is interesting it is word play but what makes a film a pan indian film is when somebody in assam kashmir or kanyakumari accepts your film wholeheartedly it is not about marketing gimmicks where i put my hoarding in punjab and therefore reached out to people there it is when people in punjab accept this film in their hearts pan indian film is a film that the audience approves of all over india you remember roja that was released years back it was a tamil film but people all over india accepted it we never called it a