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I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

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'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

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I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

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I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

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If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

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In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

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You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

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We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

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My films, no one else will do.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Director

Born: October 15th, 1957

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