Tabu

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

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I enjoy my work. And there are no two ways to that.

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Working in 'The Namesake' was a personally enriching experience.

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I know people will only come to me with good roles.

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I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.

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I wanted to be an air hostess because I wanted to see the world.

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If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

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One never can plan. I just did my work and enjoyed shooting for all my films.

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'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by…

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Promotions create awareness, but if there is no merit to the film, what will promotions do anyway?

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People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get…

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I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because…

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I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

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I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am…

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I was really excited when films like 'Kaala Paani,' 'Maachis,' 'Chandni Bar' and others came my way. The sheer fact that I…

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I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any…

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Why was it important for women to be only nice? Why can't she have dark layers? So when they came to me…

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I had read Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Namesake' and thought it would make a fabulous film, as I could identify with the central character.…

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I am keen on doing the regular Hindi film, but I want strong, meaningful roles in my repertoire, which I get down…

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I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from…

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I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.

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As far as TV shows are concerned, I would love to do a travel show.

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I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

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Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

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Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

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Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.

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I never want to stick to one genre of movies and was opened to do everything.

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I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

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I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

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Working in 'Mian Maqbool' was a refreshing experience.

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I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.

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I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

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I don't care if the heroes are short. That's their problem.

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I am not closed to any new ideas. But films are my first love.

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I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

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I laugh, cry, go for movies, eat popcorn. All these things are pretty relaxing for me.

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The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

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I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

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I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

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For me, every character takes the same amount of immersion.

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