It’s very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.
Bollywood is where I started from and learnt acting, whereas Bhojpuri cinema has got me superstardom. So, for me Bollywood is like a father and Bhojpuri cinema is my mother – there can’t be a choice.
Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important ’till the ’90s, is out of favor.
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was as good or as bad any Bollywood film. If I had to rate it, I would give it just 5.5 points out of 10. Unlike others, I am not gung-ho about the film winning so many Oscars. Yes, I am happy that I was a part of the project, but I am yet to figure out why it got so many Oscars.
I’m not switching from Bollywood to the Malayalam film industry.
Bollywood is there; the film industry is thriving, and it’s huge, and it’s everywhere. Anytime I travel abroad and I say I’m an actor from India, they’re like, ‘Oh, Bollywood!’ And I say, ‘Umm, not yet!’
Singing for Bollywood films has an altogether different approach, as the industry has a wider reach. It has helped me reach parts of India which I didn’t know existed.
Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with their cultural roots.
For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience.
It was only after moving to Mumbai that I was completely seduced by Bollywood.
I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn’t know how to go about it. That’s why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.
Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.
There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.
When I look back, I remember how being a part of Bollywood was never the plan.
Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn’t the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.
I was very excited for 2020 since I had two Bollywood releases to look forward to but then the lockdown happened.
You need to see what kind of offers come your way. Just because it is Bollywood, doesn’t mean that you have to take it.
Speaking for myself, my career has been on the upswing ever since Debina came into my life. Some of the biggest superstars of Bollywood became successful after marriage.
It is my dream to be a Bollywood actor.
I was never feverishly pursuing Bollywood.
There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?
Fitness for me is a passion. Yes, my profession demands it, but that works more as motivation for me. And, like I get motivated by looking at pictures of Bollywood or Hollywood stars with fab bodies, I want others to take that motivation from me.
When I began my career, I used to say I was a Bollywood heroine.
Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.
In Bollywood, people have been making movies for more than half a century and they are made in such a way that you need not shed off all your inhibitions.
Earlier Bollywood was a fly-by kind of business which few wished to be involved in. Now Bollywood is good business and everybody wants to be associated with films. This is definitely a very significant change that I have seen in Bollywood.
I wanted to look cute, hot and sexy all at the same time in ‘Bigg Boss!’ How else will the Bollywood producers cast me in their films as the lead actress?
I am too chill for Bollywood.
No leading lady in Bollywood has much to do in a film and I am no Kareena Kapoor who will have filmmakers write a ‘Heroine’ for me.
I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by my relentless singing.
I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing.
I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
When you’re doing your own music, it’s just you and your team. But when you go to sing someone else’s song – Bollywood or ad or even collaboration – they’ve lived with the tune for so long you have to go by their vision.
I love Bollywood, I love films, and I like to push myself, which motivates me to work harder.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
I don’t know which other actor has done as many hot scenes as I have. I pretty much have the monopoly in the bed scene market in Bollywood.
Bollywood is a cancer.
My brothers live in Australia and don’t really know about Bollywood.
Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.
I’m a bit of a shopaholic. I’ve been working in the Bollywood film industry since I was 17, and I have always been financially independent, but I think I would be useless looking after my own money.
There is no hit formula to make it big in Bollywood.
I wish that Bollywood weren’t so youth and beauty obsessed when it comes to women. I think it is very ‘under representative’ of women in their 30s.
Bollywood is a huge industry with a lot of competition and you always have to stay at the top of the game.
I’ve love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.
Unfortunately Bollywood goes ga-ga over thin not fit bodies.
When I got to know about techniques, I realised there’s a lot more to dancing than Bollywood. Till then, I had thought choreography simply meant doing your own steps.
After all my hard work, I ventured into Bollywood with ‘Traffic,’ which is a remake of a Malayalam movie.
Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.
In Bollywood even a dog at times is more popular than us. The bottomline is money and if a dog is making the moolah for the producer/director who cares whether you are an Asrani or someone else.
I had heard that in Bollywood, one gets publicity without even asking for it. There are new rumours every day and the celebrities involved get disturbed.
I was among the first batch of the students to graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune in 1966, but it wasn’t my passport to Bollywood. At that time, no one understood that it is possible to learn acting in an institute.
‘Bahubali’ is not about big budgets, big visuals, or massive marketing. If a hero, producer, and director in Bollywood can have that kind of trust, something even bigger than ‘Bahubali’ is possible.
I debuted in Bollywood without inhibitions, and I don’t want to develop any fears now. Nothing is more detrimental to an actor than the lack of total surrender.
The West is more organised, and they work according to a plan. That is one way of functioning, and I mean no disrespect to my country, because the way Bollywood functions works fine within our perimeters.
Not all Bollywood movies are made for the passion for it, they’re mostly made to make money.
In my opinion, sadly, the music industry doesn’t get its due in Bollywood.
I’ve watched all my brother’s films. But initially, I was sort of away from the whole Bollywood thing. But I’ve always supported bhai in whatever he did.
I’m not really interested in doing a Bollywood film.
Almost every second film today has a rehashed version of an old song. In fact, even non-filmi songs are now being rehashed and used in Bollywood films, which is a good thing. But I don’t want to be a part of that trend, not as a composer or as a singer.
I have made movies on education and dance, have directed and choreographed legends of Bollywood. Now, I want to make a movie on martial arts. I myself am a black belt, so I am looking forward to do something on this.
The audience loved ‘Aashiqui 2’. We are happy we could bring back the time of romance in Bollywood.
The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.
No. You can’t do that. We won’t let you go to Bollywood… ‘ This is the standard reaction of small town, middle class parents whenever their child expresses his or her desire to join the film industry.
I’m not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I’m making Hindi films. It’s just that I’m extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.
Only the Punjabi music industry has stood the test of time. Bollywood has finished the regional music industry of other languages, but the Punjabi music scene is still flourishing.
It’s good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.
As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I’m happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.
