On his 57th birthday, veteran actor Kamal Haasan speaks to Sunday Mid Day about why all he did was respect his time when he decided to take over the direction of bi-lingual Tamil-Hindi spy thriller, Vishwapooram

Vishwarapoom, your latest project, was meant to star Sonakshi Sinha. What happened?
There were date issues. We tried to work it out but there were legal contracts and any delay would have had repercussions. We had to regretfully move on. But there was no ugliness, no bitterness.