This is the red-hot interview that has showed up in The Hindu today. Kamal has an unusually light session, speaking about the various people involved with Vaettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu and also about Dasavatharam. Some quotes:

• Gautam is keen to learn … open to new ideas. The end product is savvy and looks good without pretending to be different.
• Harris Jayaraj’s final output is hummable, and well … it’s a new sound in the market. It should work.
• When Himesh told me that he would get the tunes ready soon, I just thought it was the initial enthusiasm.
• T. Prakash Rao directed nearly half the film. Midway, AVM and he didn’t see eye to eye and the entire film was re-shot by Bhimsingh. So I actually acted twice for `Kalathur Kannamma.’
• When I’ve been fed on cinema from childhood, how can I get fed up with the problems it throws up?
• …you can’t term what happened during `Virumaandi,’ `Vasool Raja’ or `Mumbai Xpress’ as problems. They were more of a nuisance!