When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.
In India, film sets are like a family atmosphere.
In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.
Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.
A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.
My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.