Satish Kaushik

“It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.”

“At the time of 'Mr. India,' I had just started and was a frustrated actor. I didn't know Calendar would take my career into the right direction.”

“My father was a salesman in Delhi and used to go around Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for work.”

“We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we've become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.”

“Just like you have a fashion council in Delhi to organise fashion shows, promote Indian fashion, etc, there must be such a body for films as well, especially because Delhi is now becoming the hub for movie shoots.”

“Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline. When it comes to big-budget films, simple storylines told with conviction are still the safest best.”

“Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.”

“In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.”

“My staple food include Aloo gobhi ki sabji and yellow daal, and on Sundays I usually just have rajma chawal.”

“Bombay was an expensive place and I didn't want to spend my nights without food in my stomach. For 400 a month, I would make bills from morning till evening and then would head to Prithvi Theatre.”

“I was always smitten by the mainstream Hindi commercial cinema.”

“I wanted to reinvent myself as a director.”

“When we were graduating from college, my dramatics professor Frank Thakurdas called me to his house and said, 'Satish, you're capable of doing a lot of things in life, but you should become a professional actor.' I told him that I am not a good-looking guy, how will I become an actor?”

“Coming from Karolbagh, I have been a movie buff all my life.”

“I feel proud of the fact that I did something differently in 'Brick Lane' and got so much of love, affection and respect from audiences and filmmakers there.”

“These days scripts aren't that repetitive and so the roles are getting more and more challenging.”

“Indian films have a set pattern and you get slotted in an image very easily.”

“In everybody's career there comes a moment when there is slowdown but one has to have that conviction and belief in themselves.”

“Whenever the protagonist of the film becomes bigger than the hero of the film, the film is bound to become a hit.”

“Haryanvi songs are a rage in Bollywood, and some talented singers hail from Rohtak, Kurukshetra etc.”