Quotes from Puneet Issar

It's wonderful when you're performing and the audience responds to it.

In 2004, I was visiting my cousins in San Francisco and we were in a restaurant talking in Punjabi. We suddenly saw heads turn. And one of the Americans at the restaurant abused us and called my cousins, 'turban-headed Osamas.' That strengthened my resolve to make a film that highlights the issue.

'Bigg Boss' is a game and not life.

At a broader level, 'I Am Singh' is an anti-racism film.

'I Am Singh' underlines the fact that every guy who wears a turban is not an Osama Bin Laden.

In 2017 I started writing 'Mahabharat An Epic Tale' and it took me two years to write it and prepare the production with Rahul Bhuchar of Felicity theatre, and we launched it on the 17th of Nov 2018 and it was a super success.

There is no meaning to light if there is no darkness.

Parshuram's is a very detailed character. People generally know him as an angry man who goes around cursing. What they are not aware of is the undercurrent of pain behind every curse of his. I bring out this pain in the character.

I am on a ketos diet so I avoid sugar, dairy products, wheat, grain or pulses.

The turban is a Sikh's honor, pride and art.

'I Am Singh' is primarily about mistaken identities that led to racism post the 9/11 attacks.

There is nothing wrong with falling for someone.

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

Every antagonist is a protagonist in his own right.

Filmmaking seems more difficult but theatre comes with its own challenges.

Theatre is my first love.

We often know only one version of the story... the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to tell the tale, and the one who loses a war is always remembered as the 'Antagonist' making the victor the 'Protagonist.'

I had read the 'Mahabharat' thoroughly even before meeting B. R. Chopra Sir. I knew the most important character was Duryodhan. Without him the 'Mahabharat' would not have happened. I straight away went and asked for that character itself.

As you age, you should be graceful.

For me, 'Bigg Boss' was like a correction centre. I think every man and woman in every state should be sent there. People take so many things for granted. They will learn to appreciate what they have once they have spent some time in the house.

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

Actors thrive on challenges. Only then can you perform.

Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I've enjoyed playing both the characters.