It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.

I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.

Should I be offered the right kind of script, I will be doing a straight Telugu film.

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.