English - Actress | August 18, 1966 -
I go about doing my work passionately.
Sarita Choudhury
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No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.
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I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.'
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When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations.
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To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.
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I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.
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After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles.
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A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind as well. That would never happen in film.
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People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them.
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I know I create major reactions in people.
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The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.
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I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.
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