very seasonal my tears run every day even then i would say they are a lot strongeras a filmmaker working with and for both generations how do you find a balance one finds it eventually i could never write a scene today like i did in kabhi khushi kabhie gham where a mother meets a son in a mall after 10 years today if i were to tackle the same situation i would treat it differently the slow motion the music the chorus and the drama would not be there it would be very subtle real i would not do away with the situation because i believe in that sense of dramawith bombay talkies you chose to focus on a complex husbandwife relationship which has always been your strength you could have moved in a completely different direction why didnt you i actually liked the story which is about the grey area that the couple has to walk in life most relationships go through that grey patch but i have always been intrigued with the fact that it is only in a marital relationship that you come out with deceit betrayals and lies you are far more honest with your parents siblings or even friends my attempt with kabhi alvida naa kehna was to talk that zone this is one step higher than thatbut kank faced fierce criticism true we were far more progressive in the 40s and 50s we are celebrating hundred years of cinema but emotionally we have regressedhow do you arrive at that there was a film called sharda 1957 starring raj kapoor and meena kumari in which they are in love but eventually she marries his father and he has to touch his lovers feet that gets accepted but lamhe goes on to become an unsuccessful film that is the unfortunately the travesty and the dichotomy of this country arth made in the 80s is niche but successful now you have the moral police breathing down your neck but that should not stop any one of us cinema can change our moral fabric but yes i saw a completely new level of double standards in the vicious reaction to kank i admit it was flawed but the way the films moral fibre was questioned surprised mewas it because you were associated the cinema of wholesome family values nods in agreement from loving your parents to leaving your wife it was obviously a leap of faith but if i dont take those leaps with cinema i will stagnate into oblivion