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“Besides, I have seen people becoming helpless when they lose their mobiles. It's actually worse than drug addiction.”
“Nobody knows when they sign a film that the role they are playing will be a huge hit.”
“If I'm out for a shoot, I provide someone else's number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.”
“It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.”
“Speaking freely can give you the basic rights of expressing your views and what you want to say without the fear of any inhibition. Unfortunately, our society doesn't give this freedom to all.”
“I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.”
“Acting is the only profession in the world where you can travel and see various places without having to spend money from your own pocket.”
“In 'Black Coffee' I am not the celluloid avatar of 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' director any more. How can you portray similar characters in two films?”
“Everything will follow if you are physically and mentally fit.”
“My career wouldn't have taken this direction if Anjan Dutt hadn't cast me in 'Bong Connection' years back. After that, I started getting meaty roles.”
“The phone will always ring. If I leave it even for a moment and go some where, by the time I come back there will be at least 50 missed calls. I will then get confused as to who to call and who not to, so it's simpler to live with out a cellphone.”
“I am looking forward to doing roles in Hindi films but have to watch my step.”
“There have been times I have stood in for women.”
“In 'Kahaani,' I did not have more than 15 minutes in the whole movie and my character has dialogues for not more than two minutes. Still,the audience remember me for that role.”
“It's true that I am not an active social media user.”
“Here in Bengal the production has to work under more pressing schedules partly caused by monetary reasons as the shooting has to be wrapped up within a limited number of days to prevent cost overrun and hence there is not much scope to rethink and alter.”
“In some cases, mobile phones have made people extremely unsocial. I don't like that.”
“I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.”
“I am grateful to Robi Ghosh, who used to praise me a lot. It is because of him that I got the lead role in 'Kalpurush,' my first Hindi serial.”
“Nobody can say 'I am going to make a hit movie.' That is the interesting part of our career.”