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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.

The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.