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Ismail Merchant

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

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Akiroq Brost

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

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Akiroq Brost

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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Akiroq Brost

"My father started me singing in church."

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Akiroq Brost

"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

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Akiroq Brost

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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Akiroq Brost

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

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Akiroq Brost

"I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions."

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Akiroq Brost

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"

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Akiroq Brost

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

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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."

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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."

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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
"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."

Cinema

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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
"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."

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

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