<span class=normal>Hi Arv, tell us something about your background<BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>I was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) and lived there, on Nepean Sea Road, until I was 10. Then I spent a couple of years in Punjab, while my father was establishing himself in Canada, shortly thereafter, I immigrated with the rest of my family to Toronto. <br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>I studied at the New Model Infant School in Mumbai. I studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>How did you foray into films? <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>After university, I had a small, extremely small, architectural practice. I had a few projects, but as the recession of the early 90s hit, all my work dried up. My (soon to be) wife, who was also an architect, saw her medium sized firm dwindle down to the point where it was just her and the principal architect left working. We decided it was time for a change in our lives. We got married, took all the money we had and went away for a three month trip. We decided to follow our dreams; mine had always been to work in film and hers was to open up a business of her own (which she very successfully did, a short year later). When we returned to Toronto, I started to pound the pavement looking for a job in film or television; there were a great deal of TV movies being made at the time.</span>