They wanted to make something else of( the film) rather than what it was going to be, so it was not easy, really not easy.

Mira Nairs

The one thing I'm consistently hearing now is that it is amongst the sexiest films of all time, and everyone is kind of unanimous about discussing the phone scene.

Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is.