However, by the age of 17, I was moving away from Tamil and Malayalam, and beginning to think entirely in English. When my parents spoke English, they, like all Malayalees, spoke English in Malayalam. I could write only in English and Hindi, both foreign to me, Hindi more than English. When I entered college to study English literature, my English diction was bad, and I had to train myself to speak only in English to improve. Maybe I am always trying only to write a good Tamil film in English.

Source: Mint August 12, 2017 03:11 UTC