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

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"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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"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."
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"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."
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"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."
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"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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"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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