Indian Film Culture Quotes

“It is easier to keep track of changing trends and social behavior through films. Traveling from one decade to another, the language of romance is constantly reinventing itself and rebelling in new forms and faces.”
― Sukanya Verma, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“Every filmmaker is reflected in their films, every creator in their creations, and that can be a very beautiful journey for the artist and the audience. So can we understand the film and in turn Bollywood more deeply if we understand the maker.”
― Oorvazi Irani, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“It is strange the way the Western world reacts so positively and strongly to films make by foreigners or by Indian NRIs to celluloid representations of the underbelly of any Indian city.”
― Shoma A Chatterji, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“Cinema is a cultural expression, a cultural transaction between the filmmaker and the audience.”
― Patul Mahmood, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“The genres of Hindi cinema are structured very differently from the Hollywood cinema: they are far more hybrid.”
― Rashmi Doraiswamy, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“Since there are Indian movies, of necessity there is an Indian film theory that informs Indian scholars. However, that theory remains to be formulated.”
― Gaston Roberge, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“Cultural power is glacial. It moves slowly but with great force.”
― Amit Khanna, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema

“Every era imprints its cultural vogue on its arts.”
― Dalton L, Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema