69 Quotes by Rohini Hattangadi

After 'Gandhi', Bollywood offered me mothers' roles. I played mother to heroes older to me like Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakrbaborty.

We were shooting a scene of the Phoenix Ashram in South Africa, but the set was in India. All the donkeys in the vicinity were painted black and white to look like zebras in case one of them strayed into the scene so that it would look like South Africa.

I guess my training at NSD helped for I had developed a habit of building up my character and getting intense.

The director could start shooting the fifth scene first. So while giving take for the scene I need to know what I am expected to do in the first four scenes. Sometimes it gets quite confusing and on television you never know when the channel will change the story or dump the character!

Indian filmmakers sometimes twist the details and the mood of the film to give it the Indian masala flavor. This tod-marod in films is a rather big impediment.

I knew Gandhi only as a freedom fighter. It is only after reading his autobiography that I realized what a man he was.

'Sukhi Mansacha Sadara' is a very simple, clean series and we all will experience the positive energy created by this simple subject.

As actors we keep on hoping to get that one good role, but at times we have to go through a lot of trash to get there.

The way the Indian cinema is going, I think more and more films on new topics will be encouraged by the audience.