India, Nov. 16 -- The starting point for director Vikarnan Ashok for his debut film Mask was money and happiness, the theories and philosophy of life that were associated with these two concepts that dominate the lives of humankind.

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'Mask began to happen when I wanted to brew around the idea of money and happiness. The first line in the trailer goes something like who said money cannot buy happiness and if that was said by the rich to keep the poor the same. But there is the middle class, a step below poor, who cannot get angry as and when he wants. He would have EMI...