Quotes About Deepti Naval

I vividly remember my first meeting with Farooque Shaikh. It was in 1975. I had just returned from New York after completing my graduation and was looking for opportunities to begin a career as an actor.

Directing the television serial, 'Thoda Sa Aasman,' was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.

Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films 'Raincoat' and 'Chokher Bali' and I had always admired his body of work.

I don't mind acting on TV if I have to play a mature, contemporary character. But I can't play a lehenga-clad lady in a saas-bahu serial.

My role in Nandita Das' 'Firaaq' as a woman too impotent to intervene when her community resorts to brutality and violence has struck a chord wherever the film has been screened.

I don't know about the public and the industry, but I am an all-time Sanjay Leela Bhansali fan. His cinema is completely stylized and commercial and yet hugely experimental.

'Heartless' is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role.