Sarah Jilani

You change it if it bothers you so much.

It's your country too.

Join politics, the police, the civil service.

Change things.

Join politics, the police, the civil service.

Change things.

But you won't, because who's going to get their hands dirty cleaning up the house?

Most of the film's other cast was relatively unknown, including English actress Alice Patton, who spoke to the BBC in 2006.

The lead character is an English woman, a young journalist actually, who heads over to Delhi to make a film about her grandfather's life.

He was an officer in pre-independence India.

It came about just as a sort of normal audition.

I got the script and really loved the story and the character and hadn't done a film yet, so I was quite excited by that.

And auditioned very regularly here and then suddenly was whisked off to Bombay for a screen test.

Most of my dialogue is in Hindi.

Shooting had finished and the night of the premiere arrived surrounded by excitement.

But for Kamlesh, it was cut short.

He had to dash off early before the screening to take an overnight flight to Paris.

As soon as he landed, he got a call from the producer, who was ecstatic and stunned.

It had gone down a storm.

It recorded the highest opening day box office for a Hindi film at the time.