History always repeats itself.
Salman reports on the sets on his own time. He does not start his day early. And he was clear about it before we went on floors. But once he is on the sets, he is all yours till you wrap up. So well, you just have to plan your day with him intelligently.
Everything is politics. And everyone has an ideology. Without one, we are animals.
I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a filmmaker's politics will always come through.
The way you treat the women characters in your film, it gives away your feelings about that topic - whether you treat them frivolously or not.
Post 'Ek Tha Tiger,' which was a more mainstream, action film, I spent a lot of time with Salman and I realised that he has a very strong commitment and believes strongly about certain issue and one of them is secularism in India.
Honestly, one doesn't expect any awards, let alone a National Award.
For so long, we have believed that commercial cinema is nonsensical, but 'Bajrangi' was not nonsense.
When I used to watch Bollywood films, I would struggle with the fact that our cinema was set in La La Land, with no social or political context. So I decided that whenever I make a film, I'll try to put some context about what's happening.