• My guest today needs no introduction - he's the master of the twist in the tale, Manoj Night Shyamalan, welcome to Walk the Talk. In fact, I could have said it's someone who gets paid for writing a screenplay three times what Sachin Tendulkar gets paid for a whole season in IPL. The Indian Premier League.

Is that right? Is that good?

• Well that is good. But if it spreads then somebody will move the Indian Parliament to limit your pickings.

That's funny.

• Well, wonderful to have you in Delhi, the Padma Shri is on now, so congratulations.

I'm so excited to be here. I can't believe that we are here. I kind of came in and was made aware of the award just a month ago. And I decided to come and, here we are. It's an amazing thing.

• In India Gate.

I know. Actually, I've been to India some eight-nine times since I was a little kid but we always went to the south, you know, to visit the aunts and the uncles and the grandma and grandpa and all that stuff.

• I believe uncles and aunts and cousins and siblings -- all PhDs and MDs.

Yeah, I'm the black sheep of the family.

• How did you get dropped out?

I'm the disgrace to the family, the least educated one of the family.

•But you make as much money as the rest of them (laugh) and (have) a lot more fame. But what happened? What made you go the other way?

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