A biography for Mahesh Bhatthasn’t been written yet.
“It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.”
“My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.”
“'Blood Money' was a stand-alone film, but we worked double for it. We realised how difficult it is to sensitise people to anything new, especially when you don't have a star.”
“If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?”
“I used to sleep with a little Ganesha under my pillow as a child; he was my favourite deity.”
“I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.”
“My father did not live with us. When he came home, he never took off his shoes - he wouldn't be staying. My father had another family: Although my father had two homes, he paid for our education and household expenses.”
“The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.”
“I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.”
“I was born on September, 20, 1948, to Nanabhai Bhatt, a Hindu, and Shirin Mohammed Ali, a Muslim. I was born after three daughters and followed by a daughter and son.”
“'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.”
“My life screams out and says one thing: 'indulgence.' I am a person who would never deny myself anything.”
“In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.”
“I always wanted to make a film on Kalahandi.”
“A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.”
“One needs strong performance to put across a point in theatre.”
“If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
“With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.”
“No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.”
“I have made more good films than anyone else in the country.”