This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.Ismail Merchant
Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
Ismail Merchant
Right now I'm writing a book on India called Ismail Merchant's India. It will be published at the end of next year. So, I'm keeping myself busy
Ismail Merchant
Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic. He asked me to lunch, then sent a huge bunch of roses to me in London, ... I was only supporting actress. Others thought the lead, Felicity Kendal, should have won.
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It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
Ismail Merchant
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant
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