Farah Khan Quotes

Farah Khan

Profession : Director

Birth : January 9, 1965

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

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I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

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I prefer doing work that projects me as a woman and a mother.

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For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

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In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.

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Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

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When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

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I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama's boys and a few of them couldn't come out of their mother's shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl.

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I always wanted to make cinema which will entertain the masses, cinema that could be called escapist but is mounted on a realistic scale with high production values.

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I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

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'Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

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A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.

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I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

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At least in films you will go, you shoot for four to five months and then you can take a break. But I know how TV works... the directors are mindblowing, they work non-stop.

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It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction.

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I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

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There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

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I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

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I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I don't make tacky films.

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