Words matter. These are the best Kiran Rao Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Dhobi Ghat’ is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.
It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write ‘Dhobi Ghat’ and more importantly be satisfied with it.
Though I adored Delhi, Mumbai was in my veins and I felt connected to this city and had to come back.
I watch certain kinds of masala films.
I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.
I don’t even watch many huge films. I don’t go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.
It’s a long process for me since I am unable to write a script faster.
I had a very late introduction to films. We didn’t watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.
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.
I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.
Actually I don’t watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That is the language of cinema I am drawn towards. I don’t watch much Hollywood or Bollywood.
The box office in an arthouse film is always going to be small. We have to face this and overcome this.
I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don’t have automatic way of consuming, like you don’t have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.
After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other girls who managed to evade the curfew and organised the slips to get out of college, we would attend college and were interested in academics.
I don’t judge cinema on its box-office success.
When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.
I was this classic film school snob who thought mainstream cinema was synonymous with bad cinema.
I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.
I would never make a film because I think it’s going to be a box-office success.
