I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!
“I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!”
— Shabana Azmi · Dying
The World Motivation
I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!
“I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!”
— Shabana Azmi · Dying
I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!
We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.
A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.
India is a beautiful country. Any attempt to divide people cannot be good for this country.
There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was a film called 'Oonch Neech Beech' and in one shot, Shashi Kapoor goes out for a jog and when he reaches, he is 40 kilos heavier!
A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
Part of being alive is dying as well.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
I was the executer of our mother's trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell it. I think that was because it was so hard to face dying and think of all her most prized possessions no longer being a part of our lives as well. Business wise, it was a terrible investment, because we were losing money.