watched it it should have been a box office successyour films have a lot of introspective characters such as shankarankutty in kodiyettam who finally matures after being hit by the harsh realities of life in anantharam you explored dualities of relationships through ajayan who was an introvert and extrovert rolled into one figuring out these characters would be the reason why you take a lot of time doing your filmsyes satyajit ray saw kodiyettam in delhi at a special screening in a film festival after the initial few minutes he started laughing loudly he enjoyed the movie so much that i became dear to him after that he watched all my movies once he asked me now that you are accepted why dont you make at least one film a year i told him it was my wish also but practically it was not viable much later he saw mukhamukham after the screening his first comment was it takes great courage to make a movie on a man who is sleeping all the time laughs after that he asked me if it was based on a published work i told him it was my idea and he said now i understand from then on i used to tell my wife that ray understands why i am not making too many filmsnaalu pennungal and oru pennum randaanum were based on stories by thakazhi sivasankara pillai and mathilukal by vaikkom mohammed basheeri buy the rights of the works before i begin scripting this allows me the creative liberty and i only retain certain portions that i like from the original mathilukal wasnt a direct adaptation from basheers work neither was naalu pennungal in the latter if you notice in the beginning of the movie you would see that the view of a man knocking from outside is shown while at the end you get to see the view of nandita das character refusing to answer the final knock the entire movie is between the two knocks that was not there in thakazhis version of the storywhat happens in between the moviesi read a lot of books cinema is my life the intervals are long because i have to feel that my movies are worthwhile i do not want to waste the audiences time nobody should come and watch my movie out of sympathy they should be entertained but the definition can be different today entertainment could mean something superfluous silly and easily forgotten i want to entertain audiences profoundly and make them thinkwhat kind of movies do you like to watchif there is a particular movie that should not be missed i make it a point to view it but i dont waste my time on commercial filmsamong the recent films i specifically talked about ozhivu divasathe kali because it was an effort to be different from the runofthemill movies there is a certain boldness and purity of effort about it that must be appreciated when i see such movies i make