"All these stories I wanted to make into films. I wanted to get them out of my system," he said.
Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar feels that his upcoming film Madras Cafe, based on the Sri Lankan civil war, will change people's perception about its lead actors John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri - as he has extracted their best performance.
Establishing the time and era of the Sri Lankan civil war for Madras Cafe was the most challenging part of making the forthcoming movie for director Shoojit Sircar.