Top 156 Bengali Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I am learning Bengali because I want to dub for myself.
I have always wanted to work in a Bengali film.
Cinematically, anything like 'Khawto' in Bengali cinema hasn't happened. Yes, you get such films in Hollywood, a few in Bombay. In Bengali literature, you get such stories in the works of Samaresh Basu and Buddhadeb Guha.
Typecast has always been a major problem in the Bengali industry.
My dream is to act in a Bengali film.
I seriously think Bachchan is more Bengali than any one I know. He's a true Bengali dada. And I'm not saying that because he has a Bengali wife or has spent time in Kolkata. There's more of Rabindranath Tagore's legacy in him than anyone else.
Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.
I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to have a good amount of adda and sing songs through the night.
Bengali is like Urdu. If you cannot get the pronunciation right, you spoil the flavor of it all.
I would even love to do a Bengali film if a good offer is made to me.
I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.
I look like a typical Bengali. Whereas the qualities people were used to seeing in heroes were dance and action, which aren't really Bengali characteristics.
Bengali film has again moved from the insipid, lackluster contents to rich, varied ones.
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.
My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali.
I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.
Some felt my looks would not go down with the Bengali audience. They felt I was not photogenic. Others felt I was just what Bengali cinema needed when there was lack of glamour for heroine roles and there were few leading ladies around.
I think Bengali women have the most eclectic sense of dressing.
I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.
When I was offered 'Abhijaan,' I didn't know any Bengali. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali. I agreed only because he had faith in me.
Everywhere I go today, people talk about Bengali cinema. I completely refuse to accept that Bengali filmmakers are not making good films.
As I am a Bengali and am used to conversing in Bengali and English, I thought my Hindi would show an accent.
Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
Bengali serials are far superior than their Mumbai counterparts.
My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.
I do speak a bit of Bengali.
Now that I have started acting in Bengali films, I will look forward to working with various directors.
I am a Bengali, I like my rice.
Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.
I took a vow that I would see a Bengali film song playing at a nightclub.
Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.
Thanks to my Bengali genes I look very young.
As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.
No Bengali comedy show is complete without mocking my mannerisms.
I am a Bengali guy from Kolkata, who started singing at the age of 10.
I watch all kinds of Indian cinema. There are many good films in Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam.
I would love to act in Bengali movies, but the work culture here is pathetic.
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
After doing the Bengali 'Antar Mahal,' I felt I should work with all Indian languages.
I'd say, in some ways, I'm very Bengali. I have a love of the arts - dance, music, visual arts - which I think is a very Bengali trait. I also love food, which I know is very Bengali!
I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but not at the cost of Bengali.
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.
I like watching Bengali film DVDs with sub-titles.
I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.
My mom is well read in English and Bengali, and my dad is a humorist, science writer and a futurist.
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
The Prosenjit-Rituparna jodi is a huge contribution to Bengali cinema as we have delivered several hits.
I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.
I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.
I speak Tamil and Telugu better than Bengali.
Bengali movies are a great form of cinema too. Interestingly, they work with lower budgets.
I'm obsessed with all things Bengali, man. I love fish, my maid is Bengali, I acted in Bengali and Bangladeshi films.
Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.
In my Bengali films, I am involved with all the promotional activities, release date posters etc.
A lot of people have said I look Bengali!
I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'
