an odd question but if you can start off by talking about not only why you made this film, but also deneyou did not want it toe. >> first, thank you. that is very kind of you. the film started more than anything else with what wdid not want to make. to begin with, i mostly wanted to steer clear of three things. firstly, i did not want to make a life doc or a fundamental he social political documentary come and mostly i didn't want to make a sweet film about doing good things. instead we wanted to make something which is cinematic about the air of daily come about birds, what is remarkable -- d inelhi, about birds, what is remarkable. you live in the city of delhi, you're almost always preoccupied with the air. it is this gray, opaque, heavy expanse. you are oh sort of preoccupied with it. thinking about human and nonhuman entanglement. i wanted to do something which is kind of abstract try you like and of air, bir, and humans. essentially, that is how the film began. i remember sitting in a car looking at the great expanse of delhi and at 1.i had the distinct prescient someone of the bla