Quotes by Mahesh Bhatt - Page 2

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Assembly
Distinctive
Personalities
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There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Every Man
Stories
Fairly
Component
Tale
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Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.
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Catch
Shift
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One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.
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Ridiculous
Smoking
Taken
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I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Disaster
Good World Me
Tried
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It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.
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China
Emulate
Filmmaking
Hero
Los Angeles
Angeles
Lean
Los
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I think one of the basest of all things is fear. Fear erodes the individual. Fear erodes the nation, the spine of the nation.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
All Things
Individual
Spine
Nation
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There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Apply
Denying
Industries
Insular
Statement
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If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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Roots
Nourish
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We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
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Strength Women Men
Held
Rightfully
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In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.
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Adaptability
Attribute
Ever-Changing
To Survive
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It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Ideology
Let Down
False
Pertaining
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We work without stars, and we proudly proclaim it. People come to Vishesh Films to work with us, and not because we can create a star.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Proclaim
Proudly
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Yes, whatever is born, dies, but I thank life for gifting us a Nelson Mandela. He will sparkle in our consciousness for times to come.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Consciousness
Nelson
Sparkle
Mandela
Thank
Yes
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Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Great Progress
Models
Nightmare
Buildings
Scenario
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With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.
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Hero
Mundane
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Films
Life People Your
Lifted
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Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.
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Contribution
Greatness
Indispensable
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My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that triangle in my cradle.
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Cradle
Experienced
Herself
Triangle
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Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.
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Bollywood
Claims
Deluded
Holy
Holy Grail
Grail
Guarantee
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While the male wants to conquer the world, the woman has a take on her immediate world that is so sparklingly refreshing that the male cannot even think of it.
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Conquer
Refreshing
Immediate
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This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.
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India
Islamic
Reality
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It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.
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Contemporary
Social Change
Just Be
Reflect
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My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?
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Break
Critics
Handful
Winning
Award
Barely
Sensibilities
So-Called
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I was born on September, 20, 1948, to Nanabhai Bhatt, a Hindu, and Shirin Mohammed Ali, a Muslim. I was born after three daughters and followed by a daughter and son.
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September
Ali
Hindu
Followed
Mohammed
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I would say more power to women who scream from the rooftop about something wrong done to them, whether it is after 10 years or 20 or 50... It doesn't make a difference.
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Scream
Make A Difference
More Power
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A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are watching something close to the first part.
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Franchise
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'Blood Money' was a stand-alone film, but we worked double for it. We realised how difficult it is to sensitise people to anything new, especially when you don't have a star.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Realised
Money People New
Double
Money Difficult People
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My career says that my doors will always be open for all. When an Anupam Kher walked in through my door at 28 and got 'Saaransh,' it launched his unimaginably productive career.
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Door
Says
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When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Clean
Connections
Doubt
Film
Film Industry
Industry
No Doubt
Underworld
Devoid
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Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.
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Fulfilling
Full Potential
Great Things
Mentoring
Pushing
Self Esteem
Great People Your
Gratifying
Intoxicating
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Vijay Anand's death marks the passing away of a true, original mind. Vijay had charisma and cinematic dazzle. He was the first who gave Indian film directors the status of a star.
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Charisma
Cinematic
Film Directors
Passing
Marks
Status
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I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.
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Ideology
Mere
Aligned
Political Party
Root
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A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.
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Film
Career
Films
Flop
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I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.
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Sustenance
Umbrella
Warmth
Come And Go
Home Father Mother
Comforts
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I felt it was a privilege that I came from such a rich background. I had the best of both worlds. My mother was a Shia Muslim, while my father was a janoi-clad man. He never pretended to be secular.
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Secular
Both Worlds
Muslim
Pretended
Worlds
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I believe that, at times, if some of us are almost too critical of our society, it's because our sensitivity and our concern for justice makes us aware that our nation falls terribly short of its highest potential.
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Concern
Sensitivity
Society Believe I Believe
Falls
Terribly
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My father did not live with us. When he came home, he never took off his shoes - he wouldn't be staying. My father had another family: Although my father had two homes, he paid for our education and household expenses.
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Expenses
Staying
Homes
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Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.
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Authority
Fatalism
Favourite
Holes
Pastime
Questioning
Tragedy
Cultural
Hardly
Hide
National
National Pastime
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'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.
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Human Race
Life Time People
Disappearing
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My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.
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Angst
Harmony
Owing
Upbringing
Hindu
Practiced
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I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.
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Believe
Effort
Insults You
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The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.
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Currency
Ideology
Political Ideology
Statues
Streets
Tragedy
Named
Numerous
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I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.
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Bias
Driven
Fabric
Power Man Will
Seat
Destroy
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I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
Absence
Exposed
Lessons
Sole
Worldly
Ali
Automatic
Formative
Mohammed
Revered
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