We want box office success, critical acclaim, awards and everything else. But I think when the audience likes a film, that appreciation is far more fulfilling, far more satisfying than any award. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
The box office in an arthouse film is always going to be small. We have to face this and overcome this. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
If I as a filmmaker take a very radical subject, which might not get an audience in the first week, multiplexes wouldn't agree to… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
Though I adored Delhi, Mumbai was in my veins and I felt connected to this city and had to come back. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other girls who… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success. — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
