I’m an actor who evolves once the shoot starts.
FAHADH FAASILI listened to the script of ‘Carbon’ at the end of 2014. I liked it the moment I heard it. I wanted to do it.
More Fahadh Faasil Quotes
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It doesn’t matter to me how I look on screen. What matters to me is how I connect with the audience.
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I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.
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I am a bad boy. I don’t come across clearly to a lot of people, so I am bad for them.
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People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn’t marry because I had to change.
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Most of the films that I do help me learn something.
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People know me through my characters. I don’t think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director’s son, and I am married to an actress.
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My films may not have a great opening, but I am not bothered about it. Whatever the numbers be, I want those viewers who come for my films to be excited about watching the movie.
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I’ve always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.
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The five directors in ‘5 Sundarikal’ experimented, and it was a very personal exercise. Amal, Anwar, Aashiq, and Sameer have done things that they have never done before. Debutant Shyju has also made a beautiful film.
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Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.
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I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.
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I don’t know how to be professional. But I always enjoy what I do.
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I am a person who doesn’t like responsibility of any kind. But I do enjoy what I do.
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If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.
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Offscreen, I’m a private person. I’m shy and don’t know how to face the public.
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All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.
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I would like to do movies of all genres.
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I trust my directors to see me through, for I don’t consider myself as a natural actor – or a good one at that.
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I have always maintained that the audience should take a call on this. Its up to them to decide whether they want to see a pirated version or not. They should understand the effort and amount of hard work that go into a film.
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Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.
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Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.
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The only thing my famous last name got me was a foothold in the industry. That was the easy part. The biggest problem is survival. As Fazil’s son, I am expected to know everything – acting, dancing, horse riding… I am not trained in all these, and I don’t think I ever will be.
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I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.
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I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.
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The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say ‘rain,’ and it started raining, and then he would say ‘song,’ and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God’s lap.
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I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.
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