Quotes by Shabana Azmi - Page 2

Why is a woman always judged only on the basis of her relationship with her family members and the time she gives them, and not on the basis of her success at work?
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Family Members
Judged
Success Family Work
Success Time Family
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I take care to conduct myself formally in public and not be brash. That is a given for people in public life. But I'm very bohemian and informal when I'm with friends.
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Bohemian
Brash
Public Life
Life Myself People
Life Myself Care
Informal
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My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender empowerment, he spoke through his poetry.
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Empowerment
Social Justice
Trenches
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I'm singularly lucky to have worked with directors who dared me to take risks and be different and I am thankful to the Indian film industry for giving me my primary identity.
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Thankful
Film Industry
Be Different
Dared
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I think there is not enough understanding of the fact that in a democracy how you treat the security of the minority must be a very important part for the success of a democracy.
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Important Part
Minority
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It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering women can a country truly be strong.
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Accepted
Empowering
Women Society World
Be Strong
Essential Part
Supporting
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People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In our country too, politicians want to ban their art and artists.
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Pakistan
Ban
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Because I was involved in so many other areas of life and so many productive activities, I wasn't judged for not being a mother. There was no pressure on me for not having children.
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Having Children
Judged
No Pressure
Life Mother Me
Activities
Life Me Children
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Until the age of 19, I lived in the Communist Party commune where eight families lived in 180 to 200 square feet of space. In that world, social justice was a given. We grew up valuing that.
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Communist
Communist Party
Social Justice
Commune
Square
Valuing
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I'm not a great stickler for giving or receiving presents on birthdays, anniversaries, etc. as a 'must do.' I prefer giving a gift without occasion if I feel it's something a friend will like.
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Anniversary
Etc
Receiving
Occasion
Presents
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There is a dumbing down of the news. Newspapers today seem more like tabloids. I have to wade through seven newspapers before I can find a couple of paragraphs that are serious news. What a pity!
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Newspapers
Pity
Tabloids
Wade
Paragraphs
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A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.
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Obliged
Action Film
Gaze
Informed
Thriller
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For me, be it 'Arth' or 'Libaas' or 'Masoom,' there has always been space to break stereotypes or social constructs and perform beyond the norm. It happened all through my career and I am happy it did.
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Constructs
Norm
Space Always Me
Stereotypes
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Women's health is not a niche issue - it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap.
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Awareness
Closing
Gender
Hygiene
Niche
Collective
Gap
Impacts
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In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.
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Equal Opportunity
Norm
Privileged
Seat
Ours
Patriarchal
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Smartphones have ensured connectivity like never before. We are bombarded with information on 24/7 television and other new sources. We are in constant touch with each other, communicating via technology.
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Bombarded
Technology Information New
Sources
Via
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I've done whatever I've been compelled to do, and I've done it all to the best of my abilities. If I've been recognized or honored for what I've done then those are bonuses, not the reason for doing what I did.
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Compelled
Honored
Recognized
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When I entered the industry in the early 1970s, I was a gold medalist from the film institute, Pune. That was when graduates from the film institute were very quickly absorbed by the mainstream commercial industry.
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Graduates
Institute
Absorb
Entered
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Acting in itself is changing. This change is because of the advent of the casting director. Earlier, there would be stock characters, who would be seen in every film. Now, casting directors are bringing fresh faces.
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Advent
Casting
Casting Directors
Faces
Earlier
Stock
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I find it amusing that every time I was asked when I will work with Zoya or Farhan, I was quoted as saying, 'It will be easier to convince Steven Spielberg to cast me rather than my own children.' That has come true.
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Amusing
Convince
Time Work Me
Work Time Me
Quoted
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can't a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?
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Employment
Leaving Home
Sacrifice
Family Work Men
Shown
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I am on a strict diet now and medication. It's torture, I simply cannot eat every two hours, which is the way all nutrition plans work these days. I lose weight but the minute I start eating again, I rapidly put it back.
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Medication
Nutrition
Plans
Strict
Torture
Rapidly
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My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.
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Diminish
Aspects
Concerted Effort
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For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by menstruating women is known to add another dimension to the overall problem.
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Adaptation
Healthcare
Dimension
Overall
Practices
Strained
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India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously, and her people at any given time and place encapsulate all the contradictions that come from being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society.
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Time Society People
Any Given Time
Centuries
Contradictions
Encapsulate
Simultaneously
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I am trying to Marie Condo the house starting with my books, although it's really hard to part with them! But I really want to de-clutter and get rid of stuff I haven't used for six months, whether it's clothes, bags, or shoes.
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Bags
Marie
Condo
Rid
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It is always necessary that we point out our flaws for the betterment of our country. If we do not, how can our conditions improve? But the atmosphere is such that if we criticize the government we are branded as anti-nationals.
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Atmosphere
Betterment
Branded
Conditions
Criticize
Flaws
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An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President of India. And that makes the Muslim here far more hopeful and far less in despair than in any other part of the world.
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Aspire
Despair
Hopeful
Far Less
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There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was a film called 'Oonch Neech Beech' and in one shot, Shashi Kapoor goes out for a jog and when he reaches, he is 40 kilos heavier!
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Fourteen
Heavier
Jog
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We never had money but it was never a problem. The spirit of comradeship, the commitment to gender equality, social justice and a celebration of pluralism and India's composite culture provided the glue that kept us joyous and closely bonded.
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Equality
Celebration
Comradeship
Gender
Glue
Joyous
Pluralism
Social Justice
Bonded
Closely
Composite
Provided
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In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother got very nervous and told my father to tell me that, 'what am I doing?' He sent me a telegram that read: 'Best of luck, comrade!'
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Comrade
Hunger
Luck
Alternative
Best Mother Me
Best Me Father
Best Father Me
Rooting
Slum
Strike
Telegram
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I don't see the point of having a favorite sari or a favorite outfit if I know that I won't repeat it. I'm glad Kate Middleton has been repeating her outfits and talking about sustainable fashion. Celebrities must set an example and repeat their clothes.
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Glad
Celebrities
Sustainable
Outfit
Repeat
Repeating
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I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.
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Inferior
Pursuing
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Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you don't like it, you have the right to express your views outside the theatre, but you cannot create a law and order situation. Then the state has to step in.
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Dissent
Law And Order
Views
Fundamental Right
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My casting in 'Halo' produced by Steven Spielberg, which I am doing, is just color-blind casting; Asians have been questioning why best roles should not come to them and I am so happy about this color-blind casting. I am going to be just what I am in that film.
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Casting
Questioning
Asians
Halo
Produced
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman's bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze.
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Autonomy
Fragmented
Navel
Subjects
Bosom
Gaze
Hip
Images
Twisting
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At the age of seven, I wanted a doll with blonde hair and blue eyes like other girls in my class. But my father gave me a black doll and said 'black is beautiful.' Telling this to a seven-year-old was quite peculiar, but these were the values we inherited from him.
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Blonde
Blonde Hair
Blue Eyes
Peculiar
Doll
Inherited
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Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
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Ambivalent
Application
Mobile
Protected
Severe
Chat
Denying
Diseases
Misleading
Vaccination
Videos
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What bothers me about red carpet, particularly Cannes, is that it's an extremely important festival where stunning films are shown and nothing of that ever comes in papers. It's always celebrities standing with one hand on waist, I don't know who decided that as an attractive position.
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Attractive
Cannes
Carpet
Papers
Red Carpet
Stunning
Always Me Important
Me Important Nothing
Bothers
Celebrities
Me Always Important
Festival
Shown
Waist
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It's interesting to see how 'Arth' still touches a chord in people's hearts all these years later. Men were very hostile when the film was shown in 1984. They were angry and said things like I'm teaching women wrong things by saying they have the choice to walk out of their husband's home if they are cheated upon.
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Cheated
Hostile
Wrong Things
Men Women Home
Chord
Women Men Home
Shown
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Unfortunately, the Hindi film industry is a sitting duck; it is easy to hurl malevolent accusations. It is a systematic campaign to divert attention from real issues, failing economy, China border tensions, spiraling Covid cases, and farmers' agitation by putting the spotlight on the supposed ills of the film industry.
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Accusation
Agitation
Cases
Failing
Farmers
Film Industry
Hindi
Spotlight
Systematic
Border
Covid
Divert
Duck
Hurl
Ills
Malevolent
Real Issues
Tensions
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Kangana has started believing in her own myth. She says she taught feminism to the film industry, she taught it nationalism. I'm glad she spelled that out because nobody else had noticed! I think she fears the day when she will no longer be in the headlines and so has to keep making outrageous statements to stay in the news.
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Feminism
Film Industry
Glad
Headlines
Myth
Nationalism
Outrageous
Statements
Believing
Fears
Nobody Else
Noticed
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Im hoping that for film actors there is this kind of emotional trigger on any subject. It need not be only slums. It can be anything. But even if it is tentative, sooner or later, it will - by its sheer force - engulf you in a way where you make a commitment and you get involved in it, beyond just making it an image-building exercise.
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Film Actors
Sheer
Slums
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Hoping
Trigger
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Look at poor Nirupa Roy. She got substantial roles, but at 30 they made her put grey in her hair. And Achala Sachdev was all of 16 when she played 60. She quit because she got nightmares about dropping a thali and screaming, 'Nahin!' You know an actor or any other human being needs to be comfortable in her space at whatever age she is.
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Dropping
Grey
Quit
Roy
Screaming
Substantial
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Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define what constitutes entertainment. But I come from a family where I grew up believing that cinema - art - should be used as an instrument for change and that's the kind of cinema I've largely done and been attracted to.
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Attracted
Believing
Define
Instrument
Largely
Provided
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