13 Quotes by Anupama Chopra

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.

The mix of soft-focus glamour, Mills and Boon romance and the inevitable feel-good ending is here, but what marks these films is an authentic core. Genuine, unaffected moments, long absent from 70mm movie content, are back.

Anhedonia’, which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.

Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone ‘look like a bulldog’, so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist;.

In Aditya Chopra’s old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: “More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I’m sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I’m today. Lots of love and come let’s make some more dreams together.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce’s Ulysses is to literature.