I'm my dad's biggest fan and, yes, sometimes his worst critic.Collection: Dad
My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition - I'm not a conformist - and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.Collection: Religion
I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.Collection: Success
I am a living contradiction.
I have realized that the taste of the viewer can constantly change. So you need to sniff out the need for change. Constantly restructuring your own business to cater to changing taste is imperative.
Expect the unexpected from me!
Creative instinct is personal.
If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
My creative team filters the scripts before they reach me and a few others. We evaluate them, ponder over the budget, and think of various possibilities to get the viewer excited.
TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.
As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.
I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.
The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.
I'm told Jodha was someone whose eyes conveyed humility, simplicity, courage, and conviction. Paridhi embodies everything I had in mind for Jodha.
I really find Jodha-Akbar a fine example of a couple, true or not, that people need to see today.
If I don't like a person, I always speak out.
I am not a person who will mince words.
It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.
I never said anything bad about Smriti, nor did she speak against me.
You cannot predict how well a film will do.
In films, I do programming I can never do in television. I have fun. Both mediums are content-led, but they are so diverse in their psychology that they cannot have a meeting point.
I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'
When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.
All my shows airing on different channels have been the top shows.
I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.
The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.
I am a terrible actor.
My work begins at around 3 P.M. I wake up at around 2 P.M., watch my serial cassettes, jog for 30 minutes, get my make-up done, and plunge into meetings lined up with my directors. By evening, I finish all meetings and go to my office, where I handle any problems that may have arisen there.
If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.
I don't work that hard.
Most of my work is in my mind.
Television is about identifying with the characters.
'Balika' is not my type of show, so I don't watch it.
I love 'Koi Aane Ko Hai.' It is my favourite show because I believe in this genre.
I believe in life after death.
I have no issue with the CBFC.
The CBFC is only mirroring society.
If you talk to a woman, she will give you at least five incidents in a day, 5-10 in a month, where she had to work harder to prove herself because she is a 'woman,' maybe at a male-dominated work place or when she has to come across as a smarter woman if she is good-looking.
We have to stop using words like 'that time of the month' or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.
I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.
The people in Kolkata are very different. They don't wish to be super rich but give more importance to education than anything else. They are very innocent at heart, and one can sense a lot of purity in them.
I honestly believe that if you're not growing, then you are taking the space that somebody else would get if you moved forward.
I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment... and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!
I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.
I really wish I were a superhero.
For me, it's quite scary to go ahead to make my characters say things because, at times, you might actually be influencing a mind - and not one but many of thousands of minds.
I do think responsibility does come with a lot of power, and more than that, it comes with the fact that you can actually change the thinking of those not only in your country but in the countries where your films are watched.
I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.
My holidays are generally impromptu, since a crazy work schedule is bound to eat into a long-planned trip.
I knew I wanted to make good television, create content that's massy, and provide programming that would invite families to come together and witness these 'reel' lives.