Mahira Khan Quotes

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

'Rangeela' was a very wonderful film, a great experience.

I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing... and not much singing.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

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.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.

I grew up idolising Madhuri Dixit, though I wasn't a Hindi film buff. I had an academic upbringing, and movies were a rarity. I looked up to Madhuri because I loved dancing, and she's a fantastic dancer.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.

'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.

Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.

It was only after moving to Mumbai that I was completely seduced by Bollywood.

Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.

I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?

I am very excited because 'ABCD' is India's first dance film. I am also thrilled because the film is in 3D. People will be able to see my dance in 3D.

I don't think I will ever understand Bollywood. And I'm happy about that because it is a big, crazy, world. It's too complicated and chaotic to understand.

If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.

I really miss doing masala films.