Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.
FAHADH FAASILI like to laugh and to make people laugh.
More Fahadh Faasil Quotes
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It is easier to produce a film on your own than convincing another person to come on board.
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I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.
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The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It’s good when you exist only on screen. I don’t want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.
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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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When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.
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Let me make something clear: I can’t do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a character. The body language of the character may make others laugh.
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All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.
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I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.
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I do only what I like. If we do something we don’t like, we will become someone else.
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I think everything is temporary.
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As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.
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I have grown up seeing success and failure.
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I don’t expect to win awards while working in films.
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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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Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.
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I try to choose characters that don’t remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.
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I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.
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Failure affects me hard.
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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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Most of the films that I do help me learn something.
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I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.
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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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Every character, when it comes to a cinematic representation, gets complicated and layered. You are given a lot of dimensions than a single dimension to an individual. That’s the main difference between seeing something out of the window and seeing something on screen.
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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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It’s the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn’t mean I regret whatever choices I’ve made over the years. No, not even ‘Kaiyethum Doorathu!’
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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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