A biography for Suhasini Maniratnamhasn’t been written yet.
“With summer in Chennai, I am struggling with my long hair. I do my own hair-dos which are comfortable.”
“I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment while growing up.”
“Though the first day of college was scary, I gradually adjusted to the environment and started enjoying myself with friends, lecturers, sports, and college day functions.”
“I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh's 'Yaanaa,' which sees her launching her daughters.”
“Films are a fantastic medium and the huge impact they have cannot be denied.”
“I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.”
“An actor is a thinking person.”
“There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.”
“I prefer to work behind the camera.”
“When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set of mathematics books and both of us would sit side by side and start solving problems.”
“I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.”
“After 40, women forget they are women. There's a certain liberation and we get to know ourselves.”
“Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.”
“Technology has definitely changed a lot, and it has made the medium of cinema very accessible for aspirants.”
“When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.”
“The more women grow economically, there will be more allegations against them. If they don't grow, if they are quiet, nobody is going to find fault with them.”
“I was 13 or 14 when I was brought from Paramakudi to Chennai by my uncle Kamal Haasan, and I lived under the care of my uncle and my grandparents.”