So how have the Parsis liked your act?
I’ve been getting a lot of positive reaction from my Parsi friends. Unlike Being Cyrus where I played a rogue, Little Zizou is a positive film with a feel-good energy, so only the crazy won’t like it. There are a few people who feel the film is fixated on the Parsis. But then, some people said that Satyajit Ray had a fixation for Bengalis. In that sense, it’s a great fixation to have. It’s wrong to say that Little Zizou is just about the Parsis, it’s for everybody and it’s a film about dreams. It’s just that the film has a lovely backdrop of the Parsis and takes the viewers into the world they would not ordinarily know. To term it as a film of the Parsis and by the Parsis is like saying Dostana is an English film because it was set in Miami or that Harrison Ford’s Witness was about the Amish people. These are all human stories.

Name your most inherently obvious Parsi trait.
I don’t know if it’s Parsi or not but it is a family trait for sure. I love discussing menus. Next year, I’ll be celebrating 25 years of my marriage and we have been planning the menu of the party for the last two years, and still haven’t got a fix on it! And mind you, it’s not a lavish 15-course menu I’m talking about, it’s just three dishes but we can’t decide the right combination.

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