118 Quotes by Mahesh Bhatt

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

'Dhoka,' I think, is not just meant for Pakistan and India but for South Asia.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

I am a people's person. I consume people.