Unni Rajen Shanker: How old is your friendship with Dara Mody, whose missing son Parzania is based on ?

Rahul: In 1996-97 we used to hangout together in the US, he was a projectionist. He came to India for extension of his H-1. Every year , all friends would get together for flying kites in January. That Jan in 2002 he was there too, one month later the riots happened, and the next festival he was there without his son wasn't.

Shailaja Bajpai: Both your films deal with question of violence. Do you feel that violence is the best way to express communal and social tensions or conflicts?

Anurag : Paanch was banned on grounds of excessive violence. My contention remains that sometimes violence is unexplained , unprovoked, sudden and very brutal. Unflinching violence when you see it on screen puts you off. Violence in Last Tempation of Christ puts you off. I have got the chance to put it out and see whether it has the same impact.

Rahul : We haven't shown blood, just the whole sequence of riots. We wanted to make feel as if you were part of it and how they were feeling. After the film is over, people don't come out angry, or wanting to take revenge they ask why. Then it becomes effective, it's not glamourised.

Seema Chishti: Both of you have made very political films, rooted in recent, real life incidents. But how do you look at films like Babel, that play very tangentially on things. How do you compare both kinds of films?

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