Jodhaa Akbar as an Oscar possibility...

Frankly, I don't make films for festivals or awards — I make it for the audience. If you start looking at awards, they never get made. And if I send Jodhaa Akbar out as a festival entry, it will have to be at the length I make it.

If we want to cater to American awards, it makes sense to make a film in English and 90-minutes long. It's very difficult to break into their market with our kind of format. Even our horror films and thrillers have songs, something unimaginable to them. No, I wouldn't want to cut or change Jodhaa Akbar to fit their format — if I had to do that, I'd rewrite the whole script and create a different ambience. That would require an attitude change. So no, I wouldn't do it.----Ashotosh Gowarikar