like if aishwarya and salman were to get together in hum dil de chuke sanam it would not remain hum dil de chuke sanam for me any more at all my biggest flaw in khamoshi was that the girl remained alive i had to do that out of pressure from polygram they said happy ending or we dont give you the money were backing out in my story manisha actually dies and she goes into the world of silence as she is buried and that is what khamoshi is all about in that sense khamoshi is an incomplete work for me it bothers me till today that i compromised i should have stuck to my position but even otherwise most of my movies are not those where at the end people meet and come together and all thatdid you watch guru dutt as you grew up yes in the early stages of film school he seduces me there is something attractive about his work he tells me a tale of poignant pain see there is suffering in every human beings life and then there is a filmmaker like guru dutt who paints it on a canvas lights it in a certain way he backlights it up my god like a magician hes such an artistif a radio listener were to ask for a song to be dedicated to sanjay leela bhansali he should ask for hamari adhoori kahani nahi jaane woh kaise log thay jinke pyaar ko pyaar mila laughs there are some people who temperamentally connect to that dilip kumar and meena kumari did do kohinoor and a few light films but what she does in sahib biwi aur ghulam or what she does in pakeezah oh thats incredible stuffhasnt the audience changed you have quoted bimal roys cinema to say that that sort of cinema was also hit and spoken of black and iqbal but sometimes lay observers such as me get the impression that currently the cerebral quotient of a script is in inverse proportion to the money the movie makes yesso have we as an audience outgrown the taste for such cinema id hazard a guess that a lot of raj kapoor movies today wouldnt have made much money i would say yes there was a time when a filmmaker could tell a story there would be a do aankhen barah haath and there would be a do bigha zameen and there would be a bandini those are classics that you keep watching for their brilliance and for the liberty with which the filmmaker made them and the faith he had in the audience today yes if we do a black or a guzaarish it doesnt cut i am still very fortunate today that i have a lot of audience i am not deprived completely of an audience but there are many other filmmakers who are making far superior films very very delicate films and they have no audience thats sad its about how