The World Motivation
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
“Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.”
— Satyajit Ray · Bombay
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
I was determined to return to Bombay on two legs and not on crutches and dance again.
When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.
Bombay is different to Liverpool, or anywhere, really.