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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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Akshay Vasu

"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."

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Akshay Vasu

"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

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Akshay Vasu

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

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Akshay Vasu

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Akshay Vasu

"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."

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Akshay Vasu

"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."

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Akshay Vasu

"I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."

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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
"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."

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

Love

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

Father

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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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