Ismail Merchant Quotes

Ismail Merchant — Indian Producer born on December 25, 1936, died on May 25, 2005

Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer and director. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards... (wikipedia)

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.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

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 Quotes

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