'...not because they want to but because life leaves them with no choice.'
'When you are a pioneer and someone who's put on a pedestal, but then the pedestal gets dusty, people don't look at the statue anymore.' 'They would say, 'Yes, yes, of course I know Bimal Roy. He made Do Bigha Zamin.'.'
'I don't know how long cinema will survive.'
Aseem Chhabra lists must watch films, many classics, some relatively new and several personal favourites.
The film is adapted from Petter Seller's 1966 comedy After The Fox.
'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.' 'But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the purity that shines behind that daftness?' asks Sreehari Nair.