Om Puri Quotes:- Om Puri (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films, as well as independent and art films.
Inspirational Om Puri Quotes
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
Om Puri
When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
Om Puri
I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
Om Puri
I don’t expect anything from anybody. When you grow old… Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars… Without stars, they cannot work.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West – otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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Famous Quotes by Om Puri
Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn’t recognize her!
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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don’t make that kind of film. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
Om Puri
I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to the maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audiences at a time.
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I am grateful to the theatre for making me what I am today. But it’s not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to the cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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In theatre, you’ve got to make a connection with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven’t, you know you’ve almost lost them.
Om Puri
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, ‘Baba, let’s go for a drive’, and I tell him, ‘Where’s the fun of a drive-in this place?’ You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
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