If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
Hindi naman ako mataba eh. In fact I'm so sexy that it overflows.
You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality.
Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.
Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.
Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend. I've never known a braver girl," he says.
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.