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Ismail Merchant

"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."

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"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."

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Aberjhani

"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

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Aberjhani

"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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Aberjhani

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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Aberjhani

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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Aberjhani

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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Aberjhani

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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Aberjhani

"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."

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Aberjhani

"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."

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Aberjhani

"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"

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Aberjhani

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

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Ismail Merchant
"A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish."

Culture

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Ismail Merchant
"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."

Comedy

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Ismail Merchant
"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."

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Ismail Merchant
"Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus."

Language

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Ismail Merchant
"It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else."

Wife

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Ismail Merchant
"Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India."

Language

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Ismail Merchant
"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."

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Ismail Merchant
"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."

Judgment

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"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband."

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Ismail Merchant
"I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema."

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