Deepti Naval

I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.

— Deepti Naval

Turning to direction is an inevitable branching-out.

— Deepti Naval

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

— Deepti Naval

I have written much more than I have had published.

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I love old Hindi songs, black and white films.

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I love the kind of films Sanjay Leela Bhansali makes.

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I like to observe others a lot.

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I have travelled along the entire Tibetan stretch.

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When people reach out to me and say they relate to me through my characters, that's also a reward of a kind.

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For me, when I am in front of the camera, that's real, that's the moment I want to live.

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Sai Paranjpye, I, Rakesh Bedi, Ravi Baswani, Saeed Jaffrey... What a team it was!

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I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as…

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I was a loner and would constantly find ways to drift away from crowd at social gatherings.

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Autobiographies give you the picture of the person behind the image on screen, because that's never really you.

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I am fearlessly independent. I have the courage to go against the tide and pay a price for my choices.

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I love the solitude of the mountains. I write, take pictures and get inspired by the colors of nature.

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I don't know about the public and the industry, but I am an all-time Sanjay Leela Bhansali fan. His cinema is completely…

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Where is the need to go deep into the character and all that? Concentrate on one thing - looking beautiful in front…

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I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on…

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Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films 'Raincoat' and 'Chokher Bali' and I had…

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Personally, I've always felt that I've enjoyed my work. But there have been times where I've have waited for interesting work to…

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I have been selective from the very beginning. And I did get to work with some big names like Basu Chatterjee and…

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My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only…

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I loved the cinema of Basu Chatterjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya. Their movies were close to life, yet heart-warming.

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Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn't go under and start becoming all convoluted in my…

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Farooque Shaikh was not sick at all. In fact, when we were working together during 'Listen... Amaya,' I was sick but he…

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There was a time when Prakash, our daughter Disha, Vinod - who I was seeing then - and I went out to…

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I became extremely choosy about films.

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I love going off in the wilderness.

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I would have loved to be a part of 'Guzaarish.'

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I would love to play a character of a 50 or 60-year-old.

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Television does not fascinate me.

— Deepti Naval

I love music. I like to sing. But I am not a singer. I hum.

— Deepti Naval

Why can't we digest a woman taking the lead in a love scene?

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I am an artiste and truly a free spirit.

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I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

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Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

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Choosing death is no solution, romancing life is a choice.

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I don't listen to people who don't matter to me.

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Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

— Deepti Naval