Anurag Basu could very well be a character in his own film. Within a few seconds into our call, the filmmaker says, "Despite so many flaws, people are liking Metro... In Dino! That`s validating." On being asked at the end of the half-an-hour long conversation, if he can list at least one flaw in the film, he replies, "I am not going to tell you. How can I talk about it in the release week? I will tell you later!" 

Like his characters, it`s difficult to predict an end to Basu`s beginning. Like his characters, he is honest about what he shares and what he doesn`t. "When I hit the kitchen, half the people don`t know what they are going to get served."

In this interview with mid day, the filmmaker-writer opens up on the "Basu way of filmmaking", what he wants to tell people in love, and the wrong show size that Ranbir Kapoor sent him.