I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.
FAHADH FAASILI often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.
More Fahadh Faasil Quotes
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I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.
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I think it would be a dream for any actor to play someone like Changampuzha.
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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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I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.
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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 am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.
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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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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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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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It feels good to hear good things about yourself.
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Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.
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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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I’m not a person who goes out of my way to change my look. I like my characters to look as natural as possible.
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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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I don’t expect to win awards while working in films.
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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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I like movies made by Spike Lee – doing those films out of the U.S., that is really daring.
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My thought process is in Malayalam. So, every time I have to work outside Malayalam, the process is a little stressful. I have to translate my Malayalam thoughts into English and back to Tamil.
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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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The characters I portray are an extension of what I’ve seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.
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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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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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All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.
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In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for ‘Velaikkaran,’ I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.
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I know it’s a big gamble, but I want to do good films.
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I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.
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