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Like DIRTY LAUNDRY, is there a personal message in your work that delivers the hope for justice toward abuse? Yes, my intention is to use the art form to draw attention to issues that otherwise get overlooked. My primary intention is just to create art, and my secondary intention is to combat Indian stereotypes, but I would say that this is my tertiary intention. %u201cFilm is dead as disco.%u201d You have managed to take the counter-culture of theatrical pop art + comic books to an edgier precipice. The action, adventure and thrill of the characters comes to life in a way that draws viewers%u2019 imaginations with a %u201cWhat if it were me?%u201d sense of reality. It seems that your intuition drives the senses through this medium best. What most powerfully incites your own senses and stimulates you to defy relying on Hollywood%u2019s typical approaches to production?I think I have a problem with authority. I%u2019m not comfortable being part of the establishment, and I have never really felt like I%u2019ve fit it. Like the journalist for VENOM: TRUTH IN JOURNALISM, you aren%u2019t too afraid to get your hands dirty while mimicking violent, real life scenarios initiated or resolved by villains + superheroes. The footage in your films are wildly imaginative, often pulsing with bravery, justice and twisted endings. It begs the question about your own principles + temperament concerning injustice and punishment? How would you deal with issues in your own world that anger or abuse?This is a great question that I do not know how to answer. I feel angry a lot of the time about the mass injustices that occur in my home country of India. I%u2019m angry that I am helpless to do anything to stop them and I%u2019m even angrier that those in power seem to turn a blind eye towards these injustices. Perhaps great genre cinema is borne out of even greater anger. Your work broadly recreated versions of fan favorites. However, when you made The Machine Gun Preacher, it%u2019s relation to KONY2012 was an issue that struck closer to the hearts and homes of people worldwide. It%u2019s unpredicted association made waves, bringing the reality of abuse to the forefront of trending news.