Quotes from Mahesh Manjrekar

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.

I don't get hassled when I am doing a role that looks idiotic to me.

I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don't mind acting in them just to earn my bread and butter.

When I got to know 'Bigg Boss' is being made in Marathi, I knew the show would require a host, who has a lot of character. At the back of my mind I knew I would be able to do it but with so many big faces already there in the Marathi industry, I did not know it could come my way.

The fact that 'Bigg Boss' doesn't require any script is phenomenal as then you get caught between lines; here I can be all out and express my true emotions.

When I signed the contract, I told Salman I am doing 'Bigg Boss' in Marathi. He was more than happy and is hopeful I will enjoy doing it.

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would be acting in films.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

We call out-of-tune singers as 'Aurangazeb singers.' I wouldn't say I'm as bad as an 'Aurangazeb singer,' but I'm definitely no singer.

Public posturing notwithstanding, when trash becomes a hit no filmmaker worth his salt takes it seriously.

There was time I was 105 kg, and whenever I used to see myself in the mirror, I used to ask myself, 'What is this?' So there was only one solution and that is controlling your diet and then hit the gym.

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

I don't make Mills & Boons kind of films.

Everybody should spend some quality time with their family members and try to make the best out of bad situations.

Earlier, I did sing for 'Kaante' and a couple of other films but I had never done rap before. Marathi rap is something new and I enjoyed it.

I would love to feel satisfied doing a Hindi film when there is no restriction of commerce, which is song and dance, item numbers.

'Astitva' is all about a woman's search for her identity in a male-dominated world. It is not a feminist kind of approach. Rather, I have tried hold a mirror to the men in our society.

The industry and audience always expects filmmakers to do everything morally right. Why? We are all here to do business.

As a child, I would attend shakhas, and the discipline and love for the motherland it instilled in me has helped immensely.

Audiences make up their minds to see only certain films. They see the rest on cable after two weeks.

'Pawan & Pooja' discovers new aspects of love, it taps into the typical problems faced in today's fast-paced life.

The fight to grab eyeballs for Marathi films is intense because a majority of Maharashtrians speak Hindi and there's no undivided loyalty to their native language among them.

People feel I only make films on underworld, but that's not true.