Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

The entire team of 'Race 3' is really happy because the film is doing good business at the box office.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

We want box office success, critical acclaim, awards and everything else. But I think when the audience likes a film, that appreciation is far more fulfilling, far more satisfying than any award.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

I am happy my films have done well in Kerala.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.