Bengali Quotes

Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.

— Vivek Agnihotri

I like watching Bengali film DVDs with sub-titles.

— Amrita Rao

I am learning Bengali because I want to dub for myself.

— Rakhi Sawant

I am half Bengali and half Marathi.

— Abhijit Banerjee

The first film I gave music for was a Bengali film called 'Dadu.'

— Bappi Lahiri

Bengali serials are far superior than their Mumbai counterparts.

— Victor Banerjee

A lot of people have said I look Bengali!

— Tripti Dimri

I was brought up in a Bengali family. We were three girls and never made to feel any lesser than men.

— Sharmila Tagore

I've had a weakness for Bengali directors, be it Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, or Goutam Ghose, because of their sensitivity towards cinema.

— Deepti Naval

Aakhir' stars Sanjay Suri and Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta. It's very close to my heart and the most realistic work I've ever…

— Vikram Bhatt

I have fond memories of Singapore. I shot here for around 25 days for 'Bengali Babu English Mem.'

— Mimi Chakraborty

I am a Bengali guy from Kolkata, who started singing at the age of 10.

— Soham Chakraborty

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

— Vikas Swarup

Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.

— Aparna Sen

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to…

— Mohit Chauhan

I want to urge filmmakers in Bengal to choose a subject and mount the film in a way that there's a Bengali…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Although several actors have worked in films down South, I feel unsure of whether I will be able to emote and act…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I am overwhelmed by the reaction to my songs. At Mitra, people went crazy dancing to Paglu's songs. Naveena, which hardly ever…

— Jeet Gannguli

The Mumbai film industry has definitely a bigger reach. But considering the rich content of work in many Bengali films, even by…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Mainstream Bengali cinema unashamedly tries to copy Bollywood. They forget that they don't have the kind of budgets that Hindi filmmakers have.

— Aparna Sen

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies…

— Mithun Chakraborty

“A little smile on your face, because you’d just untangled a new translation.” He cleared his throat. “Like this one. Tumi amar…

— Tessa Dare

“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into…

— Amitav Ghosh

In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."

— Michael Glawogger

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I love to cook, and both Pancham and Gulzarbhai loved to eat. Gulzarbhai loves my karela ghosht and my Bengali kheer.

— Asha Bhosle

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

— Anoushka Shankar

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?

— Amit Shah

Bengali movies are a great form of cinema too. Interestingly, they work with lower budgets.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible…

— Shreya Ghoshal

I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, 'Noukadubi' will be my first.

— Riya Sen

My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food.

— Ronit Roy

I have a lot of Bengali friends and most of them are pretty well read.

— KK

Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.

— Gulzar

I'm obsessed with all things Bengali, man. I love fish, my maid is Bengali, I acted in Bengali and Bangladeshi films.

— Chunky Pandey

I'm very happy that whenever we talk about Bengali cinema anywhere in India, people talk about me with a lot of respect.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

— Javed Ali