Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Mahesh Bhatt
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.
I love to inspire and get inspired.
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.
'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.
I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.
It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.
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.
I think one of the basest of all things is fear. Fear erodes the individual. Fear erodes the nation, the spine of the nation.
Cinema is not part of my entertainment.
At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.
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.
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.
A person doesn't only give money to watch a film: he also gives his time.
Modi talks about Congress Mukt Bharat. I feel this is a fascist ideology.
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?
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.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
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.
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.
'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.
'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.
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.
There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.
I am an absolute atheist.
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.
I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I personally feel that religion should be kept private.
I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.
Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.
I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.
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.
I have great reverence for women.
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.
India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.
I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.
It's only a big man who makes you feel big.
Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?
'Arth' was born at a stage of my life when I had gone through an emotional wasteland.
Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.
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.
In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.
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.
I always wanted to make a film on Kalahandi.
There is no one idea of India, but ideas of India.
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.
Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.
India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.
Without a good story, a franchise won't work.
Life isn't all about entertainment.
I love working with newcomers.
The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.
The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.
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.
I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.
I am a people's person. I consume people.
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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