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“I am proud to be a daughter of the mountains.”
“They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.”
“I completely believe in the leadership and vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is because of this that I have joined the BJP.”
“My father, Haridutt Bhatt, was a teacher by profession.”
“I get offers where I'm either asked to play the villainous saas or the maa who just wants to get her daughters married.”
“Kajol is a very moody person. If she likes you then she likes you but if she doesn't, then she will not like you. Fortunately for me, she liked me.”
“Earlier, we had shows like 'Hasratein' and 'Shanti,' which had great storylines and mature content. Now, with a hundred shows running five to seven days a week, the TV industry has become very torturous and taxing for the actors.”
“The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.”
“In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.”
“Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the actor is the one who ultimately tells the story to the viewers.”
“Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting memories of that stay, I still remember that I had gone to Kashi Vishwanath temple and shopped for some Banarasi saris.”
“I teach theatre in Mumbai and at the National School of Drama, as I want to remain connected with it.”
“'Bandhan' is easily one of my favorites as the title itself talks of eternal bonds. It is an excellent example of a movie that shows truth always prevails.”
“In the 1990s, when I made my debut, an artiste would get easily stereotyped. So I only got the roles of didis, bhabhis, chachis and buas.”
“I want people to be aware, it's been proved dogs are not Covid carriers.”
“Today, television industry means pool of young talents, and if you are not active in it then there are chances that you will be overshadowed by them. It is like newspaper where old becomes stale.”
“Today if any actor says that he has done theatre before, he is considered to be a good one, which is ridiculous.”
“I enjoy working with Doon's talented, young actors and also get to learn from them.”
“It is the women who get targeted because the society will point fingers at them.”
“I was pretty good at studies and when I had come to NSD for my interview, I'd lied that I have got a scholarship to study abroad. I told my family that I had a visa interview, but I was actually here for the interview at NSD.”