We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I’d like to take up K. Balachander’s films and do that. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
I think as film actors we are comfortable on stage because we know what the audience expects. The only tricky part is to remember the lines and that body language is key, which is something we tend to forget after years of acting in front of a camera. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
I have seen a lot of people who are affected by HIV. When I see that there is industrial growth on one side but there is not awareness on the other side, it breaks my heart. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
When there is growth economically and in industry, I think there should be growth in information also. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of ‘persistence of vision’. Art is something we have to hold on to. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
In 1983, when I did ‘Sindhu Bhairavi’ and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened up a lot to them. The film showed that a man and woman could have an intellectual and artistic relationship. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
I was 13 or 14 when I was brought from Paramakudi to Chennai by my uncle Kamal Haasan, and I lived under the care of my uncle and my grandparents. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set of mathematics books and both of us would sit side by side and start solving problems. Suhasini Maniratnam Read Quote
