India, Feb. 22 -- Filmmaker Mohit Suri has built a career on stories soaked in emotion, but he admits his own path into cinema was anything but linear. A science student who later studied business management before finding himself on film sets, he laughed that his journey "didn't add up on paper." Yet, those confusing years became his training ground. "Each day on set, if you messed up, the cost of producing could change. you learn leadership in chaos," he said while speaking at All India Management Association's (AIMA) 70th Foundation Day and 20th National Management Day.

Failure, he believes, is essential. "In between the songs you remember, there are many I tried and failed. and without those, I wouldn't have made the ones you love," ...