A Quote by Deepti Naval

'Heartless' is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role. — © Deepti Naval
'Heartless' is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role.
People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.
Whether I'm in a sari or a mini skirt hardly matters as long as the role I do in a film is substantial and makes a difference.
If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
It is all about playing a challenging role, and whether a film is a commercial one or not does not really matter.
I prefer to take up films where I have a substantial role and screen space, though there's nothing like a conscious decision of doing one film a year because I haven't reached that stage yet.
Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.
I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.
My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
I rate 'Naan Thaan Bala' as one of the best performances of my career. It was a rare feat, perhaps in Indian cinema, that a popular comedian played the lead role in a film that didn't have even a tinge of humour.
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