Quotes by Victor Banerjee - Page 2

My opinion of our Parliamentarians is shared by all of us who are victims of governors who have ruled over us selfishly.
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Governors
Ruled
Shared
Victims
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An actor must have the sincerity to what he is doing. So you can't take things lightly, you have to be serious every time.
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Sincerity
Lightly
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I live in Mussoorie. I love my birds and Himalayas. There is always a new mountain to climb and mountains keep coming to me.
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Mountain
Love Me New
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We north-easterners are less manipulative and less complex and people living there are much happier than the rest of the country.
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Manipulative
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My father was a well-known sportsperson during his time. He brought me up under strict discipline like the ex-Armyman that he was.
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Discipline
Strict
Time Me Father
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I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.
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Cinematography
Compelling
Inclination
Owing
Work I Am More
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My wife Maya Bhate is from Pune. My daughters Diya and Keya, and I, are regular visitors to the city, since her family is based here.
Victor Banerjee /
Visitors
Daughters
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Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.
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Armed Forces
Disgraceful
Dunces
Honesty
Integrity
Parliament
Armed
Doubting
Honesty Is
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Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.
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Bollywood
Debt
Hindi
Ingratitude
Owe
Polluted
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My connection to Dima Hasao has been very old. As a child I used to visit the place and have always been mesmerized by its breathtaking beauty.
Victor Banerjee /
Breathtaking
Mesmerized
Visit
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My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual Guru are my parents.
Victor Banerjee /
Guru
Moral Values
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It's one thing to be chosen to play Dr. Aziz, but to play Christ, which is traditionally regarded as a blond and blue-eyed part, was a great thing.
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Blue Eyed
Chosen
Blond
Dr
Great Thing
Regarded
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I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent Victorian era. It helps romanticize your view of life.
Victor Banerjee /
Victorian
Life View My Life
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The rich have lots of money. The wealthy have lots of time. I've done enough to have lots of time today to watch sunrises and get drenched in the rain.
Victor Banerjee /
Rain
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There are quality films being made in all languages, whether in Hindi cinema, Bengali or the south. Bollywood doesn't represent Indian cinema, per say.
Victor Banerjee /
Bengali
Bollywood
Hindi
Languages
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'Kalyug' and 'A Passage to India' did get me a lot of recognition and acclamation. But for some reason I stopped getting offers from Bollywood after that.
Victor Banerjee /
Bollywood
Offers
Recognition
Passage
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Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.
Victor Banerjee /
Today Day Will
Critic
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I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people - their simplicity and honesty - comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.
Victor Banerjee /
Honesty
Identifying
Mountain
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I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn a lot from it.
Victor Banerjee /
Admired
Sharp
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Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage on to the Hindi cinema the way he does.
Victor Banerjee /
Hindi
Nuance
Incorporate
Luckiest
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When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you. As a rebel, I decided to do it.
Victor Banerjee /
Ceremony
Fashionable
Rebel
Respectable
Sacred
Thread
Young Man
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Make it compulsory that at least four weeks in a year the theaters have to screen local films and let them choose the time. That's how you have to encourage the industry.
Victor Banerjee /
Compulsory
Theaters
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I loved working with Ram Gopal Varma in 'Bhoot.' Surprisingly, he remembered my earlier performances and narrated them to me frame by frame when we met for the first time.
Victor Banerjee /
Remembered
Time Me First Time
Earlier
Frame
Ram
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At a time when the Nation is becoming a more parochial concept, Tagore's view of a liberal, open and a nation without borders and boundaries can give us hope and inspiration.
Victor Banerjee /
Borders
Boundaries
Parochial
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The relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Tagore is something every Bengali has heard about and there is a mystery attached to it. This mystery is enough to attract an actor.
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Bengali
Victoria
Attached
Attract
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We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our passions like bright flags. Calcutta is our city.
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Arrogant
Flags
Wave
Bright
Passions
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I've been involved with disability activities for over 40 years. I have done programs with several disabled children and involving them makes the performance genuinely heartwarming.
Victor Banerjee /
Disability
Heartwarming
Involving
Activities
Genuinely
Programs
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I think Rajinikanth is the biggest Indian star. While others do facelifts and wear wigs, he gets paid three times more than any Bollywood star and even gives interviews where he is bald!
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Bollywood
Wigs
Where More Three
Bald
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First of all, we need to condemn violence and terror without prejudice towards caste, creed or community. All citizens of all religions have been victims and perpetrators at the some time.
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Prejudice
Terror
All Religions
Caste
Condemn
Creed
Religions
First Of All
Victims
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Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghose who make quality films.
Victor Banerjee /
Bengali
Handful
Imitation
Only A Handful
Telugu
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I personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called 'Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,' which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.
Victor Banerjee /
Anthem
National Anthem
Patriotic
Poem
Ray
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I got 'Jogger's Park' perhaps because one fellow Bengali Sachin Bhowmick, who's the writer of the movie, recommended my name. Then Ram Gopal Varma was kind enough to offer me a role in 'Bhoot.'
Victor Banerjee /
Bengali
Fellow
Park
Ram
Recommended
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It is pitiful working in the industry and I see the flaws all the time. Though, if I have to watch something, then I prefer either horror or comedy because I don't know how those genres really work.
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Pitiful
Genres
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The floors were so sparkling clean you could eat off them. But we only ate off silver. Our grapes were imported from Persia. When my mother married, 10 English sergeants guarded her gifts of jewelry.
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Grapes
Guarded
Jewelry
Persia
Silver
Sparkling
Ate
Floors
Gifts
Imported
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Whenever I go to deliver lectures in IAS academies, colleges and schools, I always try to bring in the northeast. It may be the bamboo of Mizoram or the various beautiful tribal cultures of Misings or Bodos.
Victor Banerjee /
Bamboo
Lectures
Colleges
Cultures
Deliver
Northeast
Tribal
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I am delighted that young filmmakers want me in their films. They have open minds and a fresh take on old attitudes. I derive a lot of energy from them. Most of all, I find their love and respect utterly disarming.
Victor Banerjee /
Delighted
Disarming
Love Respect Me
Love Respect I Am
Attitudes
Derive
Filmmakers
Utterly
Young Filmmakers
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You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.
Victor Banerjee /
Last Time
Miserable
Elephant
Toast
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I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.
Victor Banerjee /
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Film-Makers
Oscar
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We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It's like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It's cancerous and does affect society.
Victor Banerjee /
Bollywood
Feeding
Affect
Blowing
Doses
Onscreen
Planted
Seed
Shown
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I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally comfortable. And for that I need to get into spaces that don't require me to make too many compromises with my beliefs as an an actor.
Victor Banerjee /
Work Age Me
Beliefs
Compromises
Economically
Emotionally
Reached
Require
Spaces
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I badly wanted to play Dr. Aziz but I knew I wasn't going to get it. I didn't go to be interviewed until I finally was forced to by the director I was working with in Calcutta. I thought, they aren't going to give me that part. I didn't want to go there and be told I wasn't good enough, or that I didn't suit the part.
Victor Banerjee /
Good Enough Me
Badly
Dr
Good Me Enough
Suit
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The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars.
Victor Banerjee /
Exhausted
Insignificant
Miles
Mist
Bag
Hundreds
Sleeping
Wiped
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