But it was like that with him. There was the beautiful scene in “The Namesake” in the car, where he is telling his son for the first time about how he almost died in that train accident. And the son says, “So is that what you think of when you think of me?” And his response is, “When I see you, I think every day is a gift.” And on the second take, he said to me, “Tujhe kuch aur chahiye, na?” — “You want something.” And I said: “Yeah, I want a tear to glass your eyes. I don’t want it to fall down.” In fact, I’d say something funny like, “If the bloody tear falls down your cheek, I will give you a slap.” That’s how we used to talk, nothing precious — a joke, as if we were car mechanics and I was telling him to shift into third gear.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2020 01:07 UTC