discussion about regional cinema coming up with superior content in the decade that went by whats your opinionwhen i was working recently in hyderabad i was having a discussion with a few people there they said of late the market for bigticket hindi films has gone down in the south bollywood had a good market in karnataka and the teluguspeaking states they say that there used to be a festival mood earlier when big bollywood flicks released there i watched a muchhyped hindi film some time ago it had great vfx work but lacked a screenplay what is the point of having good vfx work without an engaging narration but contentoriented hindi movies have been performing well here like badhaai ho andhadhun article 15 and so onthere is a debate on the threat posed by ott platforms to cinema what do you think of thisit is more or less similar to what happened with satellite television in the 90s many movie halls used to have empty evening and night shows when satellite television became popular but that didnt stop people from going to movie halls thats the magic of cinema when i was working on padman in a remote village in madhya pradesh i came across people who did not have money for their basic needs but i learnt that two out of the four theatres there had houseful shows i think ott content will become monotonous sooner or later i read somewhere that two such platforms have already withdrawn from india the problem is here when someone comes up with something 20 other people also jump in and eventually it loses steam also from what i have seen i dont think so many series with grey characters and gory scenes can impress people for a long time regional content has got its own strength and the audience will flock to theatres if they are given engaging moviesis there any tamil film which impressed you in recent timesone movie which impressed me with its screenplay and making was lokeshs kaithi it had a slickness to it and the element of time was intriguingly worked in the narration i was amazed to see how it was packaged commercially with nicely choreographed fights i would say the film is on par with world cinema it was after a long time that i got totally engrossed in a filmyou seem to be nurturing plans to direct a film can we expect something sooni will surely direct not one but many films i have more frames to capture i havent decided what kind of projects i want to be at the helm of thoughyou voice your opinion on social causes often through twitter do you think all celebrities should do it i believe everyone should voice their opinion i cant hold back my opinions for sure i express them loud but i make sure i dont hurt anybody but i will stand by what i express on social media its the biggest