Anubhav Sinha

“Just because 'Mulk' addresses some uncomfortable truths, trolls are having a field day. They say that the film has been funded by Dawood because that's the easiest way to malign it. But I am not affected by such nonsense.”

“No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.”

“I truly believe that women are extremely talented people and with the right opportunities, they perform as well and maybe better than men.”

“In 2001 when 'Tum Bin' released we got 90 to 100 screens. India had around 1000 screens at that time.”

“After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.”

“I am, what you call, an audacious man. I could walk into the room of Warren Buffet, and he may not give me the money. But I am positive that we would have a good meeting.”

“I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.”

“I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz. They took me to another facet of literature and drama.”

“I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.”

“A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.”

“I'm a workaholic and there is no other engagement in my life.”

“It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.”

“Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.”

“A lot of problems in the society exist because we don't talk about it.”

“What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.”

“'Article 15' actually is not about the Dalits. It is about us privileged people. What is it that we have done, what is it that we have been doing and what is it that we should be doing?”

“I have a list of things I want to say through my films and I have started doing that.”

“I get scared of such love where people come out of the theatre and say, 'This is the best work of Anubav Sinha till date.' I feel the pressure and wonder what will I do next.”

“In my profession, people are never scared to be nice. They are in fact apprehensive about being critical.”

“In daily life, there are times when people are happy to talk about problems, but when the society is troubled by something, there is never a larger platform for discussion. Bollywood is religion in our country and that is the best place where you can place those questions on the table.”