Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Mahima Chaudhry

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Mahima Chaudhry

Mahima Chaudhry is an Indian actress and model who worked in Hindi films. During the 1990s, Chaudhry did a few modelling assignments and appeared in several television commercials before venturing into films. She made her acting debut in the 1997 film Pardes, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She established a career with several roles in films including Daag (1999), Dhadkan (2000), Kurukshetra (2000), Dil Hai Tumhaara (2002), and received critical recognition for her performances in Dil Kya Kare (1999) and Lajja (2001).

I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.
When a boy comes home late from college, nobody questions him. But if a girl is late by even half an hour, the mother asks, 'Kahan thi?' Why are you not asking the boy where he was?
Ram Gopal Varma had signed me for 'Satya' and two days before the shoot, I was dropped out of the film. He didn't even have the decency to call me or my manager and inform me about the reality. I learnt from the press that he had begun shooting without me.
I met a lot of people in Kolkata who said Sanjiv Khanna is a wonderful, well-spoken man. — © Mahima Chaudhry
I met a lot of people in Kolkata who said Sanjiv Khanna is a wonderful, well-spoken man.
If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.
Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.
My choice for life partner has been pathetic. So, I have told my mother to look into it.
I was bullied by Subhash Ghai. He even took me to the court and wanted me to cancel my first show. It was quite stressful. He sent a message to all the producers that nobody should work with me.
You do a lot of movies, then you let others do it when you go and perform another role in life. When you again return to acting it shouldn't be taken as their comeback.
More than films, endorsements and dance shows and attending functions or appearing in any shows brings more money.
I want to smile more. And I want to do more than what I am capable of.
North Indians tend to talk a little louder than others.
I had my lockdown period just after my two movies, 'Pardes' and 'Daag: The Fire,' where I had a double role, which was a huge thing at that time and it was a successful film.
There is a general impression that if a man has a sexy wife or girlfriend, he won't stray. Men don't need a reason to stray - they do it anyway. — © Mahima Chaudhry
There is a general impression that if a man has a sexy wife or girlfriend, he won't stray. Men don't need a reason to stray - they do it anyway.
The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.
I got up and saw my face in the mirror and saw the horror. When they did the surgery on me, they took out 67 glass pieces. There were a lot of movies that I had lined up for myself during that time, and I had to let it go. I didn't want people to know because, at that time, people were not that supportive.
When I slowly got my confidence back, Akshay Kumar said why don't you be a part of 'Dhadkan' and then slowly I started picking up cameos and guest appearances, and those became hit.
When a director is making a movie after four years, it's not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.
I was here all the time doing good films like 'Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,' 'Kurukshetra' and 'Khiladi 420' but since they weren't solid hits, people didn't talk about them much.
I came back and started living with my parents, and you depend a lot on your parents. That was the time when my mother was diagnosed with an illness; she needed help and she could not be of that great help for raising my child.
I believe God is a big leveler in life.
I only worked out towards being fit!
It might be the most inspiring film in the world, but if I do not like it I will not do it. I have to believe in the film to take it up.
If you are uncomfortable, you make your family uncomfortable because they don't know how to treat you when they come.
Running around trees and across paddy fields can be exhausting after a while.
They put a picture of me on a magazine's cover and wrote 'Mahima had an accident. She's got scars all over the face. We can actually call her scarface.' It still hurts me.
We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man's character.
When I was doing 'Pardes,' I was offered 'Satya.'
The biggest change is that production has become organized, there is proper funding. It is more secure. Earlier, some people used to put in their money and if the money is not enough, it would go down the drain.
I am not in a hurry... I take slow steps but never go backwards.
When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.
There were rumors in the magazines that I was seeing Ajay Devgn. That made me even more uncomfortable.
My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.
I started judging a few television shows, making appearances at functions or cutting ribbons because it was convenient for me. It also gave me quick and good money. Now, when I look back, I feel those assignments ruined me as an actress.
I was a single mother and had to earn money.
Like cricket, hockey too needs to be a lucrative career option.
I work hard on New Year's eve as I perform at shows. And then round it off by spending a lazy day on January 1st.
I don't know how my mom put up with us. We'd walk around school in torn jeans, put on this punk-rock image and sing ballads everywhere we went.
It's been quite some time now since I've been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well. — © Mahima Chaudhry
It's been quite some time now since I've been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well.
I always wanted to sing to huge audiences.
When you count on someone you want him to be there in times of need. I may not be there when you are popping champagne bottles but I will be there, like a solid rock, if there is a tragedy.
There is no particular dream role in my mind but I would love to play a 'surprised character' which makes people say, 'Omigosh, that was Mahima.'
I wish I had taken some dance classes; I would love to be a female Hrithik Roshan.
Every time I wanted to go out and do an event, go out and do a show, I used to come drop my child at my mother's home and then I stayed back two days and I used to feel, 'I'm so much more comfortable here.'
It was the last day of the shoot in Bangalore. An early morning shoot. I sat in the car. A milk truck was coming from the wrong side and it rammed into my car. The glass pieces came like bullets into my face. I was preparing for a life without cinema. I was learning how to cope up with it. Anything that happened post that was just God's gift.
It was wonderful working with Kundan Shah. He is a very good director.
It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.
Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.
I plan to cut an album as well. — © Mahima Chaudhry
I plan to cut an album as well.
I was working for Ajay Devgn and Kajol's home production film 'Dil Kya Kare' with Prakash Jha. During that, in Bengaluru, while on my way to the studio, I had a massive accident where a truck hit my car, and the glass of my car went into my face mostly. I thought I was dying, and at that point, no one even helped me get to the hospital.
I very rarely use a Metro system but I'm glad to see the world-class things which are present in Lucknow now. I loved the artworks, especially at the Hazratganj Metro Station where chikankari work has been depicted.
I've always worked with new directors. 'Pyar Koi Khel Nahin' with Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher's debut film 'Om Jai Jagdish,' and Niraj Vohra's 'Khiladi' were all first-time films.
I know many men who say they are not meant for marriage - they don't believe in the institution. I respect them more than someone who cheats behind your back.
With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.
In fact, do monogamous men exist at all?
Every time I go on stage, it's like living my childhood dream, so it's really great.
I have been keeping myself busy with events, live events, promotions, and of course, you have a child to raise and it takes an entire village to raise one, and I am a single parent.
Movies are my pill. I can talk non-stop about them.
You should have the same rules for boys and girls at homes. You should ask them the same questions because there is a defect in the way we are raising our kids. You have to give them the same liberties, the same treatment, and the same freedom.
I have not told anyone about deejaying. I developed a liking for it when I saw some girls becoming DJs.
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