I am a director, cinematographer, editor and an occasional sound designer. In early days when I was starting out, I used to carry all my equipment. It has been a long way since then. Now I only carry my camera (and praise be the Lord) the equipment has become much lighter and smaller than when I first started. I now have help to carry my stuff around and that's a relief.

I worked in Bombay as an assistant to an editor, a cameraman, a director and a producer – four different people – all for the love of cinema. I began as a ‘lightboy’ or ‘lightman’ though in hindsight, I was just a boy. My first job was to charge batteries of ENG U-matic cameras in the crew of Sunil Gavaskar Presents. Those glorious days!

Later I went on to make films professionally for organisations like Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, National School of Drama, UNICEF, Save the Children Fund, National Human Rights Commission, Bihar Museum, Social Work and Research Centre Tilonia, Indo-German Social Service Society, URMUL and most of the networks like Zee TV, Doordarshan and several others. Some of these films were shown in the Chennai retrospective.

I have worked with all the big guys in the field but what excites me the most is to film and to travel. Going to places, spending time with people is the part of my job that I love. This is how I get to know my people intimately, I get to know my land; the seashore people, the desert people, the mountain and plateau people, the plains people and the city people; all those with whom I had had the good fortune to work with, who gave me space in their lives, in their homes, food to eat. These are my people, this is my land. This is what makes me and keeps me going.