Ismail Merchant Quotes


Well the musicals give emphasis to love longing melancholy sadness. All of that is always there.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics we never would have made more than one movie.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture which is what Hindi films are uses Urdu it's not going to diminish.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims but it's also the language of the Hindus.