What is the point of recreating something so gory on screen?

This incident happened where you and I live, in a city, in an apartment where hundreds of people live. The fact that something like this can happen a wall away, in your neighbour's flat, it just brings to light the kind of demons there are among us. But are they demons? They are just like you and I, so to ignore it and turn the page and not bring to light the possibilities that lie behind it, I think would be a bigger mistake. To understand what could have caused it would lead us to understand society better.

Not that my intention is to teach something to someone. As a filmmaker, my intention is to reflect what happens in society -- crime, politics, anything. It's very important to understand what goes on behind the scenes in such a terrible incident so that we can probably do something to prevent it from happening again.

Did you ask the permission of the Grover family to make the film?

The story has been in the papers as the media has been following the case and my film is inspired by those incidents. I don't call my characters by their real names and there are also changes, like the character of Deepak Dobriyal (who plays the murderer) is not a naval officer. So there was no need for me to take permission. It is not a biopic, nor is it a true presentation of actual happenings.

Are you prepared for a controversy? Will controversy help the film's publicity?

Controversy at best can probably attract attention to the subject matter. I don't know if controversy translates into a box-office hit.

Will the film instigate violence?

Crime is basically about intent so the whole idea of the film is whether it was intentional or not. Can a film provoke violence? Can Satya instigate someone to become a gangster? To think that this film will instigate someone to do wrong -- it is about ordinary people being caught in an extraordinary situation that I think is not related to crime.

There is a song from Rangeela in the film. How did it fit into the story?

Yes, I took the rights for the song Hoja Rangeela. It is a story of a girl who wants to be famous as an actress and she became famous as a murderous which is ironical. If things went well it would have been a Rangeela but things did not go well and that one moment screwed up everything and it became a dark murder story. So, I thought of playing Hoja Rangeela in an emotional and sad, dark and scary version, in the context of a similar girl who wanted to be a star but what happened to her was the opposite of what happened to Urmila in Rangeela, I wanted to capture the irony of that.

The promo of this film is releasing at the same time as Delhi Belly, so is everything well between you and Aamir now?

There was nothing not well between me and Aamir. We just did not work together. The promo coming together is because the producer Sunil Bohra is a good friend of Aamir and it is his request.