Tears well up in his eyes at the mere mention of his late friend’s name. “Inspector Vijay Salaskar, I lost him,” Arun Bakshi’s heart fills with an unimaginable amount of sadness. His city, his people were attacked and recklessly killed, and he is in mourning. More than that, he’s disappointed, bitter and angry, “for it’s one of the biggest lapses on part of our government and intelligence. They should all put in their papers. There has to be some accountability, someone has to take responsibility for this,” he speaks with a choked fury, clearly stating that “now is the time to declare the neighbouring country a terrorist state.” A prisoner in our own homes, is what the war on Mumbai has reduced us to, rues Bakshi. “How many colours will terror change? Sometimes it’s saffron, sometimes white, green, sometimes red...we need to behave like logical, intelligent people and tackle this right now,” Bakshi is all in for boycotting the elections. In town for the promotion of his next film, ‘Wattanaan Ton Door’, Bakshi says that India’s giant of a country, and it’s heaven here. “We need to preserve and protect that.” Meanwhile, he’s looking forward to his next film, Harman Baweja’s ‘Victory’. “It’s about a small town boy who makes it big in cricket. You have to see the frames with all the cricketers...Brett Lee bowling, Harbhajan, Harman in a tiff with Murlidharan...it’s amazing,” says Arunwho’s quite an adventure freak himself. “Shooting is a side thing, it takes me to different places so for me travelling is the main business,” he, in fact, learnt to drive a car for ‘Wattanaan.... “I play a taxi driver called Pilot Daler Singh and so needed to learn how to drive!”