and he seems to be exceptionally serious in this interview. someday i'll like to meet subash k. jha too. quotes:

I believe language is for communication. My father Jan Nissar Akhtar used to say, it's very easy to write difficult songs and very difficult to write easy songs. Simple language possesses a kind of transparency which a lyricist can afford only when he is sure of his ideas. If you enter a dark room and you don't know where the light switches are, you keep groping in the dark. I'd like to believe that I know where the switches are. Ambiguity forbids simple expression. I shy away from ambiguity.

Technically our films have progressed. The same cannot be said about the content. And the problem is outside the film industry. Earlier, we had ideals, philosophies and values upon which films were based. But without sanskar it's difficult to tell black from white. Earlier, the mill owner was the bad man and the farmer was good. We no longer know who is good and who is bad! Somewhere, society's collective morality is lost. There is a kind of moral confusion in our society which reflects in our films. Film-makers are hiding behind romance, ghost stories, murder mysteries and sex. We suffer from a lack of history and sanskar .